“Time will pass; these moods will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again”
— Kay Redfield Jamison
“We grow. It hurts at first.”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Witch Burning,” c. October 1961
“I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.”
— Fred Rogers (via quotemadness)
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech. (via wethinkwedream)
“When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let go. Surrender all attachments to people and things that you have been struggling to hold on to.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
