The Comfort Book

You have felt other things. You will feel other things again.

To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Self-forgiveness makes the world better. You don’t become a good person by believing you are a bad one

Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys

But it is helpful to remember that our perspective is our world

You don’t have to continually improve yourself to love yourself. Love is not something you deserve only if you reach a goal. The world is one of pressure but don’t let it squeeze your self-compassion. You were born worthy of love and you remain worthy of love. Be kind to yourself

It’s about the determination to keep walking forward

It’s okay to wear the scars of experience.

It’s okay to be a mess.

I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.