How the Light Comes In Quotes

“It is ok to recognize when you need a timeout. It is ok to guard your mental health like a fortress and to shut the gates when it is time for a break.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“I often wonder how many others are sitting near me, stuck in their own quiet battles with physical or mental or spiritual health, afraid or unwilling or even unable to discuss them, silently pleading for someone to extend any added amount of grace.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“Anxiety fighters are warriors, sent into battle on a hope and a prayer, to fight a demon that only exists in the recesses of their mind.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“Guard your time as if it is sacred, because it is.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“No” and “Because I don’t want to” are both perfectly good answers to give to a variety of questions. The end.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“Trusting God means that whether or not things work out, especially when things don’t work out, He is still the one you turn to in the end.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“Whatever it is that stands between us and the Savior, no matter how small or trivial it may seem, is too much. He wants us, all of us, to be His. He asks for our whole heart in order for us to have all that is His.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“Maybe if we just assumed everyone was a mosaic, made up of cracks and mis-colored pieces, fighting to stay together and appear whole, we could be more tender, more sympathetic, more patient. We might end up being the glue that holds them together, even for another minute, and keeps it from shattering into a thousand distorted pieces.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“I also believe that God’s love for each of us supersedes even the best explanations. . .”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.