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“We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“People who feel the need to say "I'm fine" are never fine, sweetheart", she says.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Ultimately, counselling is an act of hope. It’s the hope that something might get better, and for that to happen, it requires something to change.”
― Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

“Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is work to be done. Work doesn’t want to be good. It is made so, despite the headwind.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy