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21 " Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. "
― Clare Pooley , The Authenticity Project
22 " Surely it would be better to live a messy, flawed, sometimes not very pretty life that was real and honest, than to constantly try to live up to a life of perfection that was actually a sham? "
23 " She thought of all her new friends, with their lives that didn’t look beautiful on an Instagram square, yet who were so much deeper, stronger and more interesting than that. "
24 " After I left, I learned to be my own sun. "
25 " He’d tried the first chapter in desperation yesterday, but it had made his eyeballs bleed. "
26 " longue "
27 " Julian droeg zijn eenzaamheid als een paar oude, slecht passende schoenen. Hij was eraan gewend geraakt - ze waren in veel opzichten lekker gaan zitten-, maar mettertijd gingen zijn voeten er wel naar staan en kreeg hij eeltplekken en knobbels die niet meer zouden verdwijnen. "
28 " She was getting up half an hour earlier than usual to do her sun salutations and repeat her mantras."Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift," she'd chant to herself as she brushed her teeth. "It's not happy people who are grateful, it's grateful people who are happy," she'd say as she brushed her hair. "
29 " in a world where you can be anything, be kind. "
30 " Monica, I read something on Instagram the other day. It said, Mother is a verb, not a noun. I think it means there are many ways to mother without actually being one. Look at you and your café. You nurture loads of people, every day. "
31 " Day) and had finished them both in record time, while scrolling through all her social media and thinking, darkly, "
32 " What I discovered is that telling the truth about your life really can work magic, and change the lives of many other people for the better. "
33 " Perhaps the compulsion to fill every inch of space was because it made him feel less alone, or because every single object was imbued with memories of happier times, and the objects had proven more reliable than the people. "
34 " Marriage and family are all about compromise, surely? You have to work at it. It’s not perfect and easy and beautiful, it’s messy and exhausting and bloody difficult a lot of the time, "
35 " All these things, all these memories, they’re just suffocating you, keeping you stuck in the past. You have new friends now, and home is wherever they are. You could buy a new flat and start afresh. Imagine that,’ she said, staring at him intently. "
36 " It’s just stuff, Julian. You might find that, without it, you’ll feel liberated! It’d be a new start, a new life. That’s how it felt for me, leaving all this behind. "
37 " She’d taken very little, saying it wasn’t good to immerse yourself too much in the past. This was a new concept for Julian. "
38 " Spring, a time for new beginnings. "
39 " Emmeline Pankhurst didn’t chain herself to those railings so we could spend our lives as a tiny cog in someone else’s wheel. Be your own boss. Create something. Employ people. Be fearless. Do something you really love. Make it all worthwhile. So, she had done it. "
