The Asylum Confessions Quotes

“If you’re grieving, you need to let that grief sweep over you and wash you as if you were a pebble of sand adrift along the shoreline. Eventually, the strength of the water will pull you in until you are surrounded, and the very grief you thought was drowning you is, instead, supporting you.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“They just know what was in the news, and we all know that the news isn’t always accurate. What you hear is worded to get a reaction. It’s rarely the full truth, only hints and tiny pieces.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“If you live with regrets, then you’re not truly living. You’re reacting in order to not live with more regrets. Don’t do that, Jack. Wake up each day determined to be the best person you can be. Go to sleep each night knowing you did the absolute best you could and that it’s too late to change actions you’ve already taken. Determine to be absolute in your decisions, and you’ll never experience a moment of regret. Regret can destroy dreams. Did you know that? When all you do is focus on the things that went wrong in your life, you miss out on what could be happening, the good things.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“So even if your existence seems isolated and unadventurous, if you do well with the life you've been given, then it's well-lived.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“Stories are journeys, don’t you think, Death Angel?”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“Eating human-fed pig meat can harm a person in many ways. Prion diseases can be manifested with symptoms of hallucinations, dementia, difficulty walking with muscle soreness, and confusion, among the few.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“That’s something no one should ever tell another parent. Never tell someone who grieves that their heart will heal. Never suggest having another baby could replace the one they lost.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“That’s something no one should ever tell another parent. Never tell someone who grieves that their heart will heal.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“One person's truth and the real truth are often two different things, have you ever noticed that? For some, their ability to lie is so commonplace that they fall into their own trap of believing the lie.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“that, Jack.  Wake up each day determined to be the best person you can be. Go to sleep each night knowing you did the absolute best you could and that”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

“They taught me that it wasn't what I did with my life that mattered, but how I lived my life.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters