"Picking myself up; has been the heaviest weight I have lifted."

- Heba Nazar

"With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side."


-Susan Weiss Berry

"No matter what you do or how hard you try, everybody won't love you, everybody won't hate you. Stop trying to please everyone, you will end up pleasing no one, EVEN YOURSELF.".       Unk.

"..... you can't please everyone

So you got to please yourself...."

Ricky Nelson.


For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

- Sylvia Plath

"The timing of ur life will make sense one day"

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

- Emily Dickinson

"Each day provides its own gifts" Marcus aurelius 

"There's a thin sheet of glass between me and life. However clearly I see and understand life, I can't touch it."


-Fernando Pessoa

"The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

-Tennessee Williams, from Notebooks