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“Remember, being yourself is the only way to find out who truly cares and loves you for you.”

“Trauma permanently changes us. This is the frightening truth about betrayal. You never really get over it. At best, you grieve and make some kind of peace with it. But a major life disruption leaves a new normal behind. There’s no going back to who you were before.”

“That’s the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.”

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”

The future is going to happen, whether you are ready for it or not.

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

“You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

“She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.”

“The thing you are most afraid to write. Write that.”

“He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”

me: I will do things when I am less tired

“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

“One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.”

““Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world or be more sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am. So I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.” - Steven Aitchison”

“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?”

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”