We often assume that failure has …

We often assume that failure has an endpoint. We fail until we succeed and then stop failing to reap the benefits of our newly minted position in the pecking order. But failure isn’t a bug to get out of our system until success arrives. Failure is the feature. If we don’t develop a habit of failing regularly, we court catastrophe.

– from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol

Very wedding, even a successful wedding …

Very wedding, even a successful wedding, is a waste. Every wedding is an egregious amount of money that could have, yes, been spent on much more practical things, like say, a house, a down payment, a school in a small, dying mill town. A wedding is always a fleeting spectacle that is one hundred percent going to become packed down into a teeny tiny garbage square.

– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach

Feelings are actually more like weather …

Feelings are actually more like weather systems – they blow in and they blow out. Just because you feel sad this minute or this hour or this day doesn’t mean you’ll feel that way in ten minutes or this afternoon or next week. Everything you feel – anxiety, elation, anguish – blows in and out again.

– from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book by Lori Gottlieb