The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. - Cheryl Strayed

we are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule your life or define your relationship with the one who did you wrong.