The Comfort Book

You have felt other things. You will feel other things again.

To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

We are always bigger than the pain we feel.

We are always bigger than the pain we feel.

Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys.

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

Depression lies. And while the feelings themselves were real, the things they led me to believe were resolutely not.

To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change.

“How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?” The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

It’s okay to let people find you. You don’t have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don’t have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached.