"It's rare that I feel dreadful while I'm having my tea and scrawling pages into my journal outside in the sun first thing in the morning, so whatever's coming for me today will, at the very least, abate for a half hour tomorrow. This helps to remember."
"We learn by imitation: it's easy to say these things, but to see them in action, in much harder circumstances than we will ever face, is a far greater help. And to see them exemplified by real, flawed, complicated people like us is better still; they are not fairly-tale ideals, they are achievable. Real people achieved them."