You're Gonna Go Far, Kid.

“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”

“You were never created to feel depressed, unwanted, alone or ashamed. You were created to love and to be loved, and to feel that you are worthy and are valuable.”

“Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.”

“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”

“Controllers, abusers and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the question is them. They always say the problem is someone else.”

“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.”

“It’s important to do what’s best for you, whether people approve of it or not. This is your life. You know what’s good for you.”

“Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

i turned on the light in the dining room but Tubby had been sleeping in a chair and it woke her up and she was Not Pleased

Tubbitha