Life is amazing. Then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in-between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary.

"When people are down, they don't want to hear "Cheer up!" Pushing them to be positive invalidates their emotions. They don't want to be told how to feel. They want to know you care about how they feel." ~Adam Grant

"You’re overthinking because you really care. You don’t want to fail. You don’t want to let people down. But no amount of planning, worrying, or over-analyzing can give you control over what happens next. Breathe. Loosen your grip. Experience life as it comes." ~Michell C Clark

"You are here to live. Not to earn, not to stress, not to prove, not even to please. Just to live." ~Natasha Helwig

“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.” ~Paulo Coelho Why people are rude and unkind (and why it’s not about you): buff.ly/2DdDvl1

"Sometimes I’m the mess. Sometimes I’m the broom. On the hardest days I have to be both." ~Rudy Francisco

"Beneath every behavior there is a feeling. And beneath each feeling is a need. And when we meet that need, rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom." ~Ashleigh Warner

3 things to be grateful for: the person you are becoming, how far you have come, what you already have

"When I interviewed Maya Angelou, she told me to write this sentence on my notepad and to never forget it. 'Every storm runs out of rain.' I still think of that line to this day." ~Alex Banayan

“'Never quit; sounds great, but sometimes, you gotta quit. Be willing to say, 'This isn’t what I thought it was,' or 'this doesn’t appeal to me anymore.' Remember that you can quit 'the thing' without quitting on yourself." ~Michell C. Clark

"Trauma comes back as a reaction, not a memory." ~Bessel Van Der Kolk