Quotes that left a mark:
“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.”
-Brené Brown
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
– Toni Morrison
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“A person’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence their heart first opened.”
– Albert Camus
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
“The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
Currently reading:
You Are The One You’ve Been Waiting For by Richard C. Schewartz
Recent faves:
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate
Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
A Therapeutic Journey by Alain De Botton
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Peter Walker
Lyrics that make me smile:
“One day I’ll travel from the East to the West
And tap into the hidden strength that all men possess
I’ll always be young, see a young mind is fresh
And it’s clear my memories will one day disappear unless”
Jonathan Sharp 