Nakia Bethell

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Although I contemplated suicide many times, and developed concrete plans once or twice, I never gave up. Rather than take the emergency exit, I searched relentlessly for remedies and coping mechanisms. Although often feeling worn down and deeply discouraged, I persisted in hoping better times might come.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider’s web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning.”
― E.B. White

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”
― Eckhart Tolle