Quotes for my own mental health

 A selection of my favourite quotes saved from various sources in 2024

Everyday day before leaving for school for the whole time I was I was teaching in Bhutan, I actually wrote an inspirational and meaningful quote on the little whiteboard in our apartment. It helped enormously when things got tough so here’s a collection of some of my favourites.  

You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust your sails.

AFRICAN PROVERB

fernweh

[feirn-vay] • German

(n.) an ache for distant places: missing places you've never been.

"Craving for travel"

Today I learned about a term called a "glimmer."

Which is the opposite of a trigger.

Glimmers are those moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. Once you train your brain to be on the lookout for glimmers, these tiny moments will appear more and more.

There are moments in life, so monumental and still, that the memory can never be retrieved without a catch to the throat or an interruption to the beat of the heart. Can never be retrieved without the rumbling disquiet of how close that moment came to not having happened at all.

Sarah Winman.

"Still Life."

I am pieces of all the places I have been, and the people I have loved. I've been stitched together by song lyrics, book quotes, adventure, late night conversations, moonlight, and the smell of coffee.

Brooke Hampton

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

“ON THE ROAD” Jack Kerouac

You need power, only when you want to do something harmful; otherwise, love is enough to get everything done."

- Charlie Chaplin

be a

parachute

'Minds are like parachutes.

They only function when they open

THOMAS DEWAR

ENGLISH DOESN'T BORROW FROM OTHER LANGUAGES.

ENGLISH FOLLOWS OTHER LANGUAGES DOWN DARK ALLEYS, KNOCKS THEM OVER,

AND GOES THROUGH THEIR POCKETS FOR LOOSE GRAMMAR.

Your time on earth is limited.

Don't try to age with grace, age with mischief,

audacity, and a good story to tell. 

When we are near water, our brains enter a semi-meditative state known as "drifting". Drifting is a special form of attention where we are engaged with the world around us but not focused on getting something done.

and perhaps
	what made her beautiful
	was not her appearance
	or what she achieved,
but in her love
	and in her courage,
and her audacity
to believe:
no matter
the darkness
around her,
Light	ran wild
within her,
	and that was the way
she came alive,
and it showed up
in everything.