Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Faith is a quiet certainty that there is both a higher purpose to life and a higher power that oversees that purpose. Faith is knowing that we do not have to go it alone during our darkest hours and, even when we feel utterly victimized and weak, there is still something brighter, purer, and more potent than anything we can imagine that cares enough to reach out and offer a shoulder for us to lean upon. The object of faith takes many forms and many names, but the universal truth is faith itself.”
― Michelle Belanger, The Ghost Hunter's Survival Guide: Protection Techniques for Encounters With The Paranormal

“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

“. “Everyone has a dark side, Zeke; the key is not to let it make you its bitch.”
― B.L. Brunnemer, Trying to Live With the Dead

“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“My body is a cage. My body is a cage of my own making. I am still trying to figure my way out of it. I have been trying to figure a way out of it for more than twenty years.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Sometimes we try to convince ourselves of things that are not true, reframing the past to better explain the present.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Why do we view the boundaries people create for themselves as challenges? Why do we see someone setting a limit and then try to push?”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body