To the exhausted mom who feels defeated. To the woman who just got "ghosted" again by a new date. To the entrepreneur whose business is deep in the red. To the teen who goes on social media and instantly feels to big, too much, too small, not enough. To you in the struggle, these quotes are for you. Love yourself, hold onto your sense of self, and keep returning to yourself if you are lost.
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern". -Elisabeth Kubler Ross
“The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
We are struggle at some point, some more than others. If you are struggling with something and don’t know how to get through it, or if it is controlling your life, please reach out so we can help.