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41 " Have you ever questioned that maybe nothing was wrong with you in the first place? That nothing needed fixing? That you are right where you are meant to be? There are so many ways to live a fulfilled life. What you do, the people you impact, it’s all so valuable. "
― Emma Gannon , Olive
42 " Turns out that you can´t Pritt-stick a life together as a child and then hop inside it when the time is right like Bert from Mary Poppins. "
43 " I know she looks like a swan swimming around on the surface, but her legs are really splashing around underneath. "
44 " We’re all out here, making up our lives as we go along. There is no ‘better’ path. There is no ‘worse’ path. "
45 " Phoebe Waller-Bridge thanks him and says:‘It’s going bloody great, Russell!’, she continues ‘Last year has been insane. I’ve loved every part of it. […] I’m always asking myself, ‘How would I feel if this went away?’ about various aspects of it all. I think the things I’d be truly gutted to lose are my creative freedom, my collaborators and a couple of really nice coats. Anything else is just a perk.’We might not all write award-winning TV shows, but every one of us can own our successes when they’re pointed out to us. It’s also infectious. When you watch someone own their successes, you feel compelled to do the same. Therefore, by being positive about yourself, you are probably inspiring someone else in the process. "
― Emma Gannon , Sabotage
46 " I don’t want to put all the pressure on this poor Reiki woman to heal all of my life’s problems, but it would be great if she could. "
47 " I also used to think that people were actually stacked on top of each other during University Challenge – it’s actually just edited that way. "
48 " The more I hide it, the heavier it becomes. Each woman I know carries it – shame – but it’s a different shape for us all. "
49 " think I am in that rare and temporary point in life where I am an ‘old young person’ and a ‘young old person’. I’m bang in the middle: young enough to be cool, old enough to have some experience of how shit life can be. "
50 " guess this is being human: we can never be 100 per cent sure about any decision we make. "
51 " It had felt so simple when we’d first laid down the rules in our twenties, on the day we left our shared house: that no matter what happened, we would make time for each other. Many people make the mistake of kicking friendships aside for the other seemingly more important strands of life, but we all know it’s friendship that really keeps you afloat. We weren’t going to be those people who let friendships slide. Or were we? "
52 " You might find yourself fleeing a work or relationship situation, or engaging in some other self-protective/self-sabotaging behaviour, as if there is a real physical threat, when in reality the threat is coming from your false beliefs.' - Dr. Margaret Paul "
53 " Over the years I have become more and more aware of the fact that I am the only person in the world who expects as much from me as I do, and I definitely don't expect the same standards in others. There is always a brief to be met. Sometimes you just about meet it, which is totally fine. Other times you reinvent the wheel with a cherry on top. It's for you to judge when a task demands your everything and, most of the time, it just doesn't.' - Katherine Dixon. "
54 " If you can, work more pauses into your life. When we have quieter breaks to reflect (e.g. eating lunch without looking at your phone; going for a walk without listening to a podcast) you have more of a chance of tapping into the inner nudges and gut feelings that subtly direct you towards what you want. "
55 " If it will take less than five minutes, do it straight away. "
56 " We must try and internalise our accomplishments as much as we can. We must believe our good qualities as fact and not fiction. We must truly use what's great about ourselves as oxygen; we must learn not to solely rely on inconsistent external validation in order to breathe in this world. "
57 " Perhaps I’m scared of having that much love. Too much love, to potentially lose. "
58 " I am an enthusiastic and hard worker, I would like to believe, but often the lack of support or the unnecessary questioning by those around me can cause feelings of self-questioning and lowering of self-esteem, even when I know I am doing my job to the best of my ability, professionally and ethically. This environmental atmosphere can lead to immense self-stress. I'm a harsh critic to myself and the positivity is stifled when there is a lack of external support to appease the self-critic. Things I say to myself: Is that good enough? Clarified enough? I thought I was pretty clear on my thoughts, processes and justifications, so why am I having to justify myself? Is what I'm saying not reasonable?The explanatory ramble that I often go on feels like an internal friction burn. Like a cramp no one can see.' - Rebecca Cunningham "