#ss

I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for my life but I am more interested in it, more engaged you might say. When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary. ↗

— Sally Brampton

#life

He looked down at her as he eased from the bed. Why such a creature of light and love and life should have come to him, he could not fathom. But he was grateful. Very grateful. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#godric #lord-of-darkness #life

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#happiness #life #love #moments #pain

At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one." (from Vanishing Acts) ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life

Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while. ↗

— Sara Quin

#heartthrob #makeup #messedup #now-im-all-messed-up #sara-quin

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#feelings #happiness #life #old #sadness

Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love-loss #pain #life

Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason is. "I am a person with Bipolar Disorder" and they're are a lot of great minds on the "Famous Bipolar" list that died penniless. If I do the same it's no big deal but having a form of mental Illness I would love to get my name on the Bipolar list also one day. Preferably while I'm still living so I can make sure they spelled it right ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#bipolar-disorder #bipolar-life #mental-illness #psychology #life

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#love #life

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

#celebrity #everyone #immediate #produce #success