Words
Words that have touched me and provided solace during various phases of my life and healing. I hope you find something you may need here.
“what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives.”
— Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
“We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.”
— Gabor Mate
“It’s okay to feel all of the stuff you’re feeling. You’re just becoming human again. You’re not doing life wrong; you’re doing it right. If there’s any secret you’re missing, it’s that doing it right is just really hard. Feeling all your feelings is hard, but that’s what they’re for. Feelings are for feeling. All of them. Even the hard ones. The secret is that you’re doing it right, and that doing it right hurts sometimes.
I did not know, before that woman told me, that all feelings were for feeling. I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy. I thought that happy was for feeling and that pain was for fixing and numbing and deflecting and hiding and ignoring. I thought that when life got hard, it was because I had gone wrong somewhere. I thought that pain was weakness and that I was supposed to suck it up. But the thing was that the more I sucked it up, the more food and booze I had to suck down.”
― Glennon Doyle
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
— Rumi
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."
Of course, you do not do this out loud, otherwise
someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a
full moon in each eye that is
always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in
this world is
dying to
hear?
- Hafiz
Gabor Mate:
“Not why the addiction, but why the pain.”
“Trauma is not what happens to us, it’s what happens inside of us.”
“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
— Mary Oliver
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox & The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”
— Prentis Hemphill
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
- Viktor E. Frankl
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
“What happens when people open their hearts?”
“They get better.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key”
