The Magic of Found Objects

by Maddie Dawson

You’re creating your reality, and the words you tell yourself, the story you believe about yourself, is the way things are going to turn out for you. You

have to fill your heart with love for yourself, Phronsie. That is the first and most important thing you have to do. Everything you want will follow from that.”

grief is something you can get used to. You shrink it down, put it in your pocket, like a phone number scrawled on a piece of paper, and maybe after a while, you just leave it in your drawer and don’t carry it with you at all.

No one, no one, loves me the way I want to be loved. No one loves the whole me.

It takes character to live with the imperfect facts of your life and to change the things you can change, and to be willing to live with the things you can’t do anything about.

“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”