The next time you think “I should be okay,” I hope you will not shame yourself into silencing the very instinct within you that is shouting, you are … - Brianna Wiest

Because if everything were explained, there would be nothing left to figure out.

You will be grateful things didn’t turn out the way you wanted. You will be grateful for what you struggle with once you get to the other side.

They don’t confuse a bad feeling for a bad life. They are aware of, and avoid, extrapolation, which is essentially projecting the present moment into the foreseeable future — believing that the moment at hand constitutes what your entire life amounted to, rather than just being another passing, transitory experience in the whole. Emotionally intelligent people allow themselves their “bad” days. They let themselves be fully human. It’s in this non-resistance that they find the most peace of all.