“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”

“Kor forbausande lett det er å forlate, tenkte eg. Er folk klar over det? Det burde ikkje kome ut.”

We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven,
or that we will never forgive ourselves.
But we do – we do it all the time.

“To be vulnerable, taking risks, doing what you love and greeting each day with gratitude is to move through life as who you are and were meant to be. This is where joy ultimately resides.”

-Brene Brown

“As external conditions change, it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This is why so many people meet their lifelong friends in college, she added.”

Friends of a Certain Age, by Alex Williams

But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.

// Marya Hornbacher

I just wanted to write down some cute quotes I like and make a daily post out of them as well.

1. When trying to get the facts, I pretend that I am collecting this information not for myself, but for some other person. This helps me to take a cold, impartial view of the evidence. This helps me eliminate my emotions.

2. While trying to collect the facts about the problem that is worrying me, I sometimes pretend that I am a lawyer preparing to argue the other side of the issue. In other words, I try to get all the facts against myself-all the facts that are damaging to my wishes, all the facts I don’t like to face.

The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.