“Promise me you’ll always remember:
You’re braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.”
– A.A. Milne

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You [...]

For those days when you take two steps forward and then fall three steps back.
“And I have a lot of self-esteem, which is amazing, because I’m probably somebody who wouldn’t necessarily have a lot of self esteem as I am considered a minority. And if you are a woman; if you are a person of [...]

“Have patience with everything that
remains unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books
written in a foreign language.
Do not now look for the answers.
They cannot now be given to you
because you could not live them.
It is a question of experiencing everything.
At present you need to live the question.
Perhaps [...]

There’s an analogy in here somewhere. Something about aching for the stillness in the distance, but being distracted by the dizzying blur of the present foreground.
I ache.
I’m distracted.
At least for tonight.
“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole [...]