Victoria

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Neither. He's a—a—a meat dog.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“A common argument is that the real danger of people self-diagnosing with ADHD is that it could lead to people self-medicating for ADHD too.
But, I'm sorry... What?!
Do you believe there are actually people out there convincing themselves they have ADHD, purposefully deciding not to go to a doctor about it, and instead planning to buy a regular supply of Dexies from their sketchy cousin for literally 100x the prescription price?”
― Matilda Boseley, The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library