“I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire. Cooking. All those soufflés, all that crème caramel, all those daubes and albóndigas and gumbos. Clean sheets, stacks of clean towels, hurricane lamps for storms, enough water and food to see us through whatever geological event came our way. These fragments I have shored against my ruins, were the words that came to mind then. These fragments mattered to me. I believed in them. That I could find meaning in the intensely personal nature of life as a wife and mother did not seem inconsistent with finding meaning in the vast indifference of geology and the test shots.”
"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."
- Joan Didion
Self-awareness
"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
- Joan Didion
Self-awareness
"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
- Joan Didion
Integrity
"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."
- Joan Didion
Personal Growth
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."
- Joan Didion
Inspiration
"When trust is betrayed, dreams shattered, hearts broken and broken again, when we want justice and need mercy, when our fists clench and our tears flow, when we need to know what to hold onto and what to let go of, we can always remember Him. Life is not as cruel as it can sometimes seem. His infinite compassion can help us find our way, truth, and life [see John 14:6]."
- Elder Gerrit W. Gong
Healing
"This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life."
Healing
"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."
Healing
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
Healing
"Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what’s happened and continue living."
- Erza Scarlet
Healing