"It's time to begin righting the story of your life."

“Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.”

“I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.”

“I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.”

“When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.”

“True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.”

“The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.”

Source : Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.110, Macmillan

“A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.”