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The only thought I had about the future at all was the sense of Things will be easier, I'll have more flexibility, more sleep. I never thought about what would be lost.

When we feel fragile, we are like raw eggs. We crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we are like hard-boiled eggs - we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won’t crack completely and spill all over the place.

The future is hope, but where is the hope if you already know what happens? What are you living for then? What are you striving for?

People tend to remember experiences based on how they end.

The inability to say no is largely about approval-seeking. The inability to say yes, however, is more about lack of trust in oneself.

If we're cut off from our feelings, just skating on the surface, we don't get peace or joy--we get deadness.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

It's not knowing that torments John.

Our loneliness, created by our speedy lifestyles.

Our awareness of death helps us live more fully--and with less, not more anxiety.

The four ultimate concerns are death, isolation, freedom, and meaningless.

Sometimes the only thing to do is yell, "Fuck".

Almost every woman I see apologizes for her feeling, especially her tears.

Sometimes "drama", no matter how unpleasant, can be a form of self-medication, a way to calm ourselves down by avoiding the crises brewing inside.

People don't have to tell you their stories with words because they always act them out for you.

Follow your envy--it shows you what you want.

Freedom involves responsibility, and there's a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

"But I don't want to be saved!" I insist, though this time part of me wonders, Wait, do I? On some level, don't we all? I think about how people come to therapy expecting to feel better, but what does better really means?

It's impossible to grow without first becoming vulnerable.

happiness stems not from how well things go but whether things go better than expected.

Most things worth doing are difficult.

The most powerful truths are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

Looking death in the eye would force them to live more fully.

Life is the very definition of uncertainty.

You lose a leg or kidney, you’re still you, but lose a part of your brain—literally, lose your mind—and who are you then?

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to look at.

People don’t always remember events or conversations clearly, but they do remember with great accuracy how an experience made them feel.

Do I miss him or do I miss the idea of him?

It’s all about one foot, then the other.