Paula Heller Garland Quotes

People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way--at least initially.

I lit the candles and said out loud, “what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?” And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.

I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.

I had to ask myself why I'm continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm my belief I was not enough? Did I think I needed to suffer? Did I think I could save him? Why not save myself instead? What a miserable realization that I knew all of this yet failed to take action.

You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.