The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer's work begins with a broken heart. - Glennon Doyle

Depression and anxiety are not feelings. Feelings return me to myself. Depression and anxiety are body snatchers that suck me out of myself so that I appear to be there but I'm really gone. Other people can still see me, but no one can feel me anymore — including me. For me, the tragedy of mental illness is not that I'm sad but that I'm not anything. Mental illness makes me miss my own life.

The voice I finally heard that day was my own — the girl I'd locked away at ten years old, the girl I was before the world told me who to be — and she said: Here I am. I'm taking over now.

I think we are only bitter about other people's joy in direct proportion to our commitment to keep joy from ourselves.