You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding. - Cheryl Strayed

What if I forgave myself? What if I forgave myself even though I’d done some things I shouldn’t have? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn’t do anything different from what I’d done? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if all those things I shouldn’t have done were what got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Transformation doesn’t ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that’s already inside of you. You only have to bloom.

when we identify with what another has said or written, we use those words as an articulation of our own inner voices, not only as a celebration of theirs.