Jenny Lawson

Furiously Happy

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  • Mon S.has quoted6 years ago
    I believe it was Sartre who said, “Hell is other people,” and I suspect he wrote that after spending an hour with overinvolved parents who won’t stop yelling at coaches, instructors, or crying four-year-olds who really just want a snow cone.
  • Aizhan Bekmukhamedovahas quoted4 years ago
    my subconscious was apparently so terrified that it had decided that the safest place for me to be was fast asleep on a floor, surrounded by bedpans. Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever.
  • Aizhan Bekmukhamedovahas quoted4 years ago
    I have avoidant personality disorder (which is like social anxiety disorder on speed) and occasional depersonalization disorder (which makes me feel utterly detached from reality, but in less of a “this LSD is awesome” kind of a way and more of a “I wonder what my face is doing right now” and “It sure would be nice to feel emotions again” sort of thing).
  • Aizhan Bekmukhamedovahas quoted4 years ago
    sounds sort of unintentionally dirty and is also great fun to say. Try it for yourself. Con-COC-chew-lary. It sings.
  • Aizhan Bekmukhamedovahas quoted4 years ago
    s like the Fifty Shades of Grey version of “Jack and the Beanstalk.” But with fewer anal beads, or beanstalks.
  • Aizhan Bekmukhamedovahas quoted4 years ago
    don’t sell your cow for magic beans.
  • Carolina Gallardo Pavesihas quoted5 years ago
    survived and I remind myself that each time we go through this, we get a little stronger. We learn new tricks on the battlefield. We learn them in terrible ways, but we use them. We don’t struggle in vain.

    We win.

    We are alive.
  • Carolina Gallardo Pavesihas quoted5 years ago
    I hope one day to be better, and I’m pretty sure I will be. I hope one day I live in a world where the personal fight for mental stability is viewed with pride and public cheers instead of shame. I hope it for you too
  • Carolina Gallardo Pavesihas quoted5 years ago
    about taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they’re the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence.
  • Carolina Gallardo Pavesihas quoted5 years ago
    Decorum is highly overrated and probably causes cancer.”
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