Each day I pause to write down the things that bring me joy: the places where I experience happiness (‘found joy’) and the places where I contribute to the happiness of others (‘brought joy’).
I also use this notebook to collect random quotes that I find interesting or meaningful or that stand out. At the end of each month I’ll post these random quotes, shared out of context.
Gentlemen, the audience can’t hear you because your mics are cut. (Margaret Brennan)
The deepest form of self-care is building a life you are in love with, and that is very often an unbeautiful thing. It means making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer running from the problem and calling the distraction a solution. It means looking your failures and disappointments in the eye and restrategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. (Brianna Wiest)
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. (Robert Brault)
We're running out of soil to bury our dead. (@HossamShabat)
In Hebrew, zochrot means “remembering”, and unlike the re-traumatization currently passing for commemoration, remembering in its truest sense is about putting the shattered and severed pieces of the self together (re-member-ing) in the hopes of becoming whole. (Naomi Klein)
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. (Herman Hesse)
Apricity: “the warmth of the sun in winter”
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
...
where there is doubt, faith;
...
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love. (St. Frances of Assisi)
It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. (Hans Selye)
'Should be' will always be a long road. (S. Kelley Harrell)
The challenge of recovery is to reestablish ownership of your body and your mind — of your self. This means feeling free to know what you know and to feel what you feel without becoming overwhelmed, enraged, ashamed, or collapsed.
For most people this involves:
- finding a way to become calm and focused,
- learning to maintain that calm in response to images, thoughts, sounds, or physical sensations that remind you of the past,
- finding a way to be fully alive in the present and engaged with the people around you,
- not having to keep secrets from yourself, including secrets about the ways that you have managed to survive. ( Bessel van der Kolk)
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. (Jean Kerr)
They did not mean to kill the children.
They meant to.
Too many kids got in the way
of precisely imprecise
one-ton bombs
dropped a thousand and one times
over the children’s nights. (Fady Joudah)
Nobody hates watching Sister Wives like the fans of Sister Wives. (r/SisterWives)
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melody Beattie)
I would rather die of passion than boredom. (Vincent Van Gogh)
Healing is so hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child who is scared and just wants safety... your inner teenager who is angry and just wants justice... and your current self who is tired and just wants peace. (@recovery_your)
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. (N.R. Narayana Murthy)
What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who hears. (Eckhart Tolle)
If we don’t get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will become collateral damage to your rage. So are you as men prepared to look into the eyes of the women you love and tell them you supported this assault? (Michelle Obama)
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. (L. M. Montgomery)
I enjoy the Wiest quote — we’ve got to tend to the garden 🩷
I love the word apricity... I learned of it only recently myself.