“Anxiety is always feeling like something is out of place and when you can’t find what it is…you start to think it’s you”

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”

“If you don’t align your expectations, you will end up demanding from the other person something they never said they were willing to give you.”

“Isn’t it scary knowing that any time could be the last time you talk to someone?”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“There’s really no shortcut to forgetting someone. You just have to endure missing them everyday until you don’t anymore.”

“Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people’s happiness. In fact, how often our minds leave the present and where they tend to go is a better predictor of our happiness than the activities in which we are engaged. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost. A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.”