You Could Make This Place Beautiful

by Maggie Smith

“Wish for more pain,” a friend’s therapist once told her, “because that’s how you’ll change.” It has to hurt so much that you have to do something differently. The pain forces your hand.

suffering equals pain plus resistance,

you don’t get to take credit for someone’s growth if they grow as a result of what you put them through.

Being with someone who doesn’t want the best for you is worse than being alone.

If you’re in enough pain, you won’t be able to continue living the way you’ve been living; you’ll have to do something differently.