mckenzie forbes harris

It’s funny how you can be friends with someone for years but it can end in a minute because they’re unwilling to swallow their pride.

If you’re struggling and your people are just sitting there watching you struggle… They’re not your people.

It’s never too late to change the direction that your life is going in.

If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.

“Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else. If you have lots of people around you—perhaps even a husband or wife, or a family, or a busy workplace—but you don’t share anything that matters with them, then you’ll still be lonely.

Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

You don’t ever really let go, though. You don’t stop. You don’t stop hurting, you don’t stop loving. It doesn’t go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it’s not consuming you every day. And then one day you know you’re okay. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And yeah, you forget the details. The way she smelled, the way her mouth tasted, how her skin felt, the sound of her voice. It’s almost like a different life, a different person that loved her, was with her. But on a day-to-day level, you know you’re okay. Sort of.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I don’t regret you but sometimes I wish I had walked away at the start and left things at hello.

How stupid of me was it to think that you actually saw something in me?

Sometimes you have to hit the block button in real life.

Stay away from people who make you feel like you’re not good enough, because you are worth so much more

People change. There’s no warning and they usually don’t care if it hurts you.