“If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.” – David Mitchell, Black Swan Green Writers are not the most social human beings. We […]
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“Whatever you do, don’t try and escape from your pain, but be with it.” – Tibetan Book of Living and Dying A few years ago I suffered from major depression. It was the best thing that ever happened
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“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” – Dale Carnegie What’s your happiest memory? When
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Vulnerability is not weak – it is letting people in and showing them your flaws, and there is nothing braver than that. My dog is 10 years old and we’ve had him for that length of time. Only
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“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes As a child, all I wanted to do was figure out how
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”- Mary Oliver The body speaks to us; it will scream for our attention by breaking down in any of innumerable ways if
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“Ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen People used to call me the Ice Queen years ago, and I
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As a child, I moved back and forth between foster homes and living with various biological family members. I never questioned why my grandmother allowed such a chaotic life for me to live because I believed that she
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September 17th, 2012 was my own personal judgement day. Months of anxiety and nervousness had built up and today was the culmination. It was time to pay the piper. What in the world had me so scared? Was
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In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton’s character says, “Losing all hope was freedom.” It’s a quote that strikes you, because it deals with two important concepts—hope and freedom—and pits them against each other in a way you wouldn’t
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“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude” – Steve Maraboli I used to think that happiness was something that happened after I got the things that I wanted. Happiness, to me, was the “end goal”. Whatever I
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