Lore De Silvestri R.’s Reviews > Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way > Status Update

“I love you very much, but if you are not setting a boundary, you're impeding others from their own growth.”

“At the intersection of grief and gratitude, in the space we have carved out for honesty, I have found my own salvation.”

“This is now how I like to think of love, not as one person merging into another, but as two stars who have been through their own pressures and turmoils and triumphs, coming together to shine side by side, no matter how long it takes to get there, each giving light to the other and then to us all.”

“I am the only person who can validate me and I’m doing the best I can.”

“if I continued to tie myself to awards or reviews or achievements, I would always be the passenger to someone else's opinions”

“How can we build a more healthy and kind world if we’ve lost all hope in our individual wherewithal to do that for ourselves?”

“We can’t get what we don’t ask for.”

“we don't have to make that part up, there is nothing we have to fix, improve, or spend money on to create-it is already here.”

“Many of us believe that we have lost our most authentic selves. Some of us think we never had them to begin with we might believe that our trauma happened so early that we never even had the chance to meet the people we were born to be.”

“we must touch and comfort our own sorrow if we are going to help anyone else, because if we don't, how can we ever truly empathize?”