Mara Laya

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you”
― Kyra Davis, Sex, Murder and a Double Latte

“The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing.”
― Jen Sincero, Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick

“I used to be terrified of my own weakness; if acknowledged it, I thought I would be overwhelmed by it. But I am stronger and braver than that. I am not so easily broken. I am strong enough to realize that it is alright to be fragile, to be less than perfect. Staying connected to that vulnerability, ironically, gives me strength.”
― Hope Donahue, Beautiful Stranger: A Memoir of an Obsession with Perfection