Louisa

“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.”
― Pema Chodron

“It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.”
― Pema Chodron

“When days are scarce what better way to spend them than in a bout of madness.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain