Brené Brown
Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage. ― Brené Brown, Rising Strong. (Spiegel & Grau; 1 edition August 25, 2015)
Category: Mental Health
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
I don’t like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don’t like to feel things. As I’m staring down at the piece of paper, I’m thinking I could spend the rest of my life becoming an expert at forgetting. — Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster (Cinco Puntos Press,… Continue reading Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Stephen Grosz
Closure is just as delusive–it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. ― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves. (W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition May 12, 2014)
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Make no mistake: everything has a variant. Like versions of truth, like versions of love, there are versions of sleep. The deepest sleep is meant only for children and perfect fools. Everyone else must pay each night her restless due. ― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau. (Random House; First Edition first Printing edition March 17, 2015)
C.G. Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ― C.G. Jung
C.G. Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ― C.G. Jung
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Only in the present tense is the subject married to its verb. The action—all action, past and future—comes at the end. At the very end, when there is nothing left to do but act. ― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau. (Random House; First Edition first Printing edition March 17, 2015)
Pema Chödrön
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart. (Shambhala; Later Printing edition September 26, 2000)
Wally Lamb
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. — Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone. (Pocket Books June 1, 1998)
Nick Flynn
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they’re going under. ― Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir. (W. W. Norton; Reprint edition September 17, 2005)
The Vale of Soul-Making 