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“That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“I think what hurts the most is that I just really want to belong. I want to stand inside the circle of other people and be noticed for the right things, but it seems like the wrong things are always bigger. And all the advie I've ever read --smile more, be yourself, dream big, stay positive--seems to have some darker side that's never mentioned.”
― Jane Devin, Elephant Girl: A Human Story

“Love isn't something you can just unlearn...no matter who you are, or who you're born to, or how much it's not returned" - - Elephant Girl”
― Jane Devin, Elephant Girl: A Human Story

“Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.”
― Blake Mycoskie, Start Something That Matters

“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“No matter how much I appeared to have changed - how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance - I was still her. At best I was two people, a fractured mind. She was inside, and emerged whenever I crossed the threshold of my fathers house.”
― Tara Westover

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

“The one thing depression has told you is that a day can be a long and intense stretch of time.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Lincoln didn't do great work because he solved the problem of melancholy: the problem of his melancholy was all the more fuel for the fire of his great work. So even if depression is not totally overcome, we can learn to use wat the poet Bryon called a "fearful gift".”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Travel makes one modest" said Gustave Flaubert. "You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." Such a perspective can be liberating. Especially when you have an illness that may on one hand lower self-esteem but on the other intensifies the trivial.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“We might be stuck in our minds but we aren't physically stuck. And sticking ourselves from our physical location can help dislodge our unhappy mental state. Movement is the antidote to fixedness, after all.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“By going into a new physical space especially in a different country, you end up inevitably focusing a bit more on the world outside your head.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I read and read and read with an intensity i'd never really known before. I mean, Id always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books. They weren't a luxury good during that time in my life. They were a Class A addictive substance. I'd certainly fallen deeper into the worlds conjured on the page. There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Depression for me was total exposure. A red-raw, naked mind. A skinned personality. A brain in a jar full of the acid that is experience. I'm not talking about all that What doesn't kill you makes you stronger stuff. No. That's simply not true. What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your life.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“How to be there for someone with depression and/or anxiety:
1. Know that you are needed and appreciated, even if it seems like you're not.
2. Listen to understand.
3. Appreciate that it is an illness. Things will be said that aren't meant.
4. Don't take anything anything personally.
5. Be patient. Depression ebbs and flows moves up and down. It doesn't stay still. Do not take one happy/bad moment as proof of recovery/relapse. Play the long game.
6. Meet them where they are. Ask what you can do.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Love (at its best) is a way to reclaim those lost parts of ourselves. Maybe its just about finding the person you can be your wierd self with. I helped her be her, and she helped me be me.

If I offered her anything - it was the chance to be herself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“What is depression? Its like a tornado, theres nothing you can do but sit and wait, and finally when the storm is over ... you are left with the destruction. The scars on your body, the puffy eyes from crying, the exhaustion from fighting a losing battle. It's consuming.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than one-self or as a by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.”
― Viktor Frankl

“Suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore, the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Viktor Frankl

“There was plenty of suffering for us to get through. Therefore, it was necessary to face up to the full amount of suffering, trying to keep moments of weakness and furtive tears to a minimum. But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time wrongly as you are about to act now”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“78% said their first goal was "finding a purpose and meaning to my life".”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Man's search for meaning is primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalisation" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning. There are authors that contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms but i would not be willing to live merely for sake of "defense mechanisms". Man however, is able to live and even die for his ideals and values.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Logotherapy focuses rather on the future, that is to say on the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in his future.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to "be happy". Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. Humans are rather in search of of a reason to be happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent in a given situtation.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Fabulous and Fucked up. Absolutely right. It's called "Being Human". Let's celebrate that, not fear it.”
― Tanya Byron

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken than Daisy Jones.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid