45 Quotes by Sue Halpern

We often talk about "getting out of our comfort zone," but rarely about entering someone else's.

Trauma is not just one thing.

Do you stop reading a book because you don't want to watch the characters you like turn out to be unlikable, or the ones with which you identify denied the happy ending you believe they deserve?

I think it's possible that when you think that the future might bring great sadness, you become more generous that you ever has been before, so you can carry other people's happiness with you.

In math, the constant variable stays the same, while the other variables have no fixed value. But in life, as those variables take on more precedence, the value of the constant diminishes.

But it's a little like that children's book, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, but in reverse: if you're not loved for who you are, you cease to be real. Definitely for the other person, and maybe for yourself, too.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

One thing I can suggest is that when you start to go to a dark place, for you to consciously redirect your thoughts. Mind over mind. Make yourself think of something completely different. An image of something joyful or silly, and focus on that.

It was as if her mind were a theater where bad actors could be run off the stage by a pack of adorable, yelping dogs.