Heather Havrilesky

You are just a person with regular flaws, fumbling your way toward a satisfying life. You’ve been handed a big challenge, but one that’s going to help you to grow up and take care of yourself and connect honestly with other people. You don’t have to love this challenge right now. You can cry every day and feel terrible about it. But this challenge wasn’t meant to topple everything else you’re doing that’s good in your life. T

Hold your own space and honor yourself and don’t let that space shrink or collapse in the company of indifference. Don’t ask indifference to love you.

Because once you build your own religion around gratitude and pride in who you are, at your best and at your worst, you’ll feel better than you ever have before.