All Parents
Damage Their Children
“Cry.
Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future
happiness.”
―
Steve Maraboli
“All
parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass,
absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few
shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
―
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“If
you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why.
Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just
is, like the weather.
Try
to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re
going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s
hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest,
noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
―
Stephen Fry
“Don’t
try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and
everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And
if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
―
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
“One
of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising
discoveries.”
―
A.A. Milne
“Whenever
you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression
among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect
of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“The
more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset
you.”
―
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
“When
we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and
willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that
nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will
not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to
decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
“To
shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Sometimes
you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Friendship
marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into
obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
―
Elie Wiesel
“Time
was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I
hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
―
jonathan safran foer
“Be
thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Anxiety
is the dizziness of freedom.”
―
Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting
Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
“There
are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
―
Albert Schweitzer
“People
come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters
in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told
their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new
characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not
the ones from the past.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
“The
trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for
you.”
―
Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
“please
believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be
soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”
―
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I
like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
―
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
