“While they were in the hospital, the Egg Moon had slipped away, and the new Mother's Moon had arrived. After that, in June, would come the Rose Moon, what Ada McIntyre called the Strawberry Moon because strawberries, wild and domestic, ripened. After the strawberries came the mulberries and blackcap raspberries, then the blackberries, the blueberries, and finally, the cranberries.”
Source: The Waters
“Managers could be tidy-minded simply because tidiness seemed like the right and proper way to be.”
Source: Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.”
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“In other words, personality disorders are ego-syntonic, which means the behaviors seem in sync with the person’s self-concept; as a result, people with these disorders believe that others are creating the problems in their lives. Mood disorders, on the other hand, are egodystonic, which means the people suffering from them find them distressing. They don’t like being depressed or anxious or needing to flick the lights on and off ten times before leaving the house. They know something’s off with them.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“We can dedicate ourselves to staying connected to supportive people who will receive us without expectations or judgments.
In that process, we will internalize them as they nurture our wounded ones. They will then join and foster those parts of ourselves who can be present with the ones who come to us in their suffering and recovery.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Even therapists need therapists!”
Source: Paperback Therapy
“Life and the Universe are beneficent. If we make friends with our experience and work with the flow of life rather than against it, we will find that our highest good is being supported on all levels, and that there is nothing to fear.”
Source: Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life
“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added, "Look, life gives us everything. Then it takes it away. Youth, love, happiness, friends. Darkness gets it all in the end. We didn't have enough sense to know you can will it-life-to others. Your looks, your youth. Pass it on. Give it away. It's lent to us for only a while. Use it, let go without crying. It's a very fancy relay race, heading God knows where. Except now, in your last lap of the race, you find no one waiting for you on the track ahead. Nobody for you to hand the stick to.”
Source: Farewell Summer
“No children?" Emilio asked them one evening, to his own surprise.
"Nope. Turned out, we don't breed well in captivity," George said, unembarrassed.”
Source: The Sparrow
“Asioitten arvostaminen on raskasta.”
Source: Loppuunkäsitelty