Quotes by Blythe Harding

“Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.””

“Discipline will save you when the chips are down. Discipline will temper you and turn you into steel when your ass is burning alive in the flames of life’s hard times-furnace.””

“The concept of hard times resulting in a positive transformation is repeated in nature over and over again; it’s why they say that a diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well! Think about how a caterpillar has to cocoon herself in darkness and wait, in a space which becomes far too small for her expanding wings. If you were to interfere with the process and help her out, she would never develop the strength she needs to fly; it’s the struggling which makes her powerful enough to break free and become a butterfly.””

“All the tension and darkness of our embodied life is held in a scaffolding of balance and symmetry, a natural order that is hard to see, like the ocean’s turbulence is held by its depths.””

“When your mother kisses you on the scalp, let her. Let your father hug you, hard.””

“I feel like if I push too hard, I could lose her, but if I don’t let her know how I feel then I could lose her anyway.””