Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don’t allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

‘Whether you think you can or cannot, you are right’

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

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Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

‘The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom’