Category: Quotes

“Reflective thinking and creativity require that we stop in the middle of a moment, reflect, and spend time “in our head.” We reflect on the past and imagine the future, making dissociative disengagement a key part of daily life. And it’s essential for relational interaction, as well.”

Dr. Bruce D. Perry – What Happened to You?

“And I can’t find a point to falling in love, which is just a desperate attempt to stave off the loneliness that you can never truly solve for, because you are always alone “way down in the dark which is you”.”

“But for now I’m just looking up at that Sycamore tree, thinking about how it turned air and water and sunshine into wood and bark and leaves, and I realize that I am in the vast, dark shade of this immense tree. I feel the solace of that shade, the relief it provides. And that’s the point.”

John Green – The Anthropocene Reviewed

When we are lost in the forest, our fear might not be directly caused by the forest, or our being lost in said forest, but while we are actively lost in the forest it very much feels like the source of our fear is being lost in the forest. But it is helpful to remember that our perspective is our world. And our external circumstances don’t need to change in order for our perspective to change. And the forests we find ourselves in are metaphorical, and sometimes we are unable to escape them, but with a change of perspective we can live among the trees.

Matt Haig – The Comfort Book

“You can’t see the future coming—not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”

John Green – The Anthropocene Reviewed