Just for fun.... Do you have a favorite quote? It can be OCD related or not Mine is "and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" by anais nin

Neville Longbottom People die every day. Friends, family. Yeah, we lost Harry tonight. But he's still with us, in here. [gestures to chest] So's Fred, and Remus, Tonks... all of them. They didn't die in vain. [to Voldemort] But you will, 'cause you're wrong! Harry's heart did beat for us, for all of us! It's not over!

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you" Not very inspirational but I think it perfectly captures what it feels like to engage with any kind of identity or harm related Pure O.

'You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.' 'If you never heal from what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who didn't cut you.' and pretty much anything written by radiohead. lol

"The search for certainty is the road to insanity"

"Why do people shush animals?" John Mulaney

my favorite quote is a super long one that samwise says from the lord of the rings movies. it ends like “there’s some good in the world, and it’s worth fighting for.” i always watch lotr and pretend that frodo is me trying to give up my compulsions ?

"Perfect is the enemy of good" -- Voltaire

“Don’t ruin a good today on a bad yesterday” Or “Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she began to fly”

Mighty Oaks From Little Acrons Grow.

To be or not to be. That's OCD

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" - Wayne Dyer

I have two favorites: "If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.” -Snoop Dogg, a rapper and former calc student And “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” -MLK Jr

“In the end it will be alright and if it’s not alright then it’s not the end” “Having money’s not everything, not having it is” - Kanye “Pause, look around, and say- I’m really in this bitch!” - graffiti by my apartment in Brooklyn

“Let it be.” My mantra when I get intrusive thoughts. It doesn’t work all the time but helps at times :)

But we loved with a love that was more than love

“You will be found” from Dear Evan Hansen or “Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.” -Alan Rickman (If you couldn’t tell, I’m an actor lol)

“They are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore. I do not know them, I have never known them, and I am very pure” The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

“Where man cannot love, gods fare no better.”