Furiously Happy Painting

"Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free." "Like my grandmother always said, 'Your opinions are valid and important. Unless it’s some stupid bullshit you’re being shitty about, in which case you can just go fuck yourself.'" "There will be moments when you have to be a grown-up. Those moments are tricks. Do not fall for them." "Last month, as Victor drove me home so I could rest, I told him that sometimes I felt like his life would be easier without me. He paused a moment in thought and then said, 'It might be easier. But it wouldn’t be better.'" "Pretend you’re good at it." (Credited to Neil Gaiman) "You don’t have to go to some special private school to be an artist. Just look at the intricate beauty of cobwebs. Spiders make them with their butts." "To all who walk the dark path, and to those who walk in the sunshine but hold out a hand in the darkness to travel beside us: Brighter days are coming. Clearer sight will arrive. And you will arrive too. No, it might not be forever. The bright moments might be for a few days at a time, but hold on for those days. Those days are worth the dark." "Normal is boring. Weird is better. Goats are awesome, but only in small quantities." "I’m having one of those rare days where I love people and all of the amazing wonder they’re capable of and if someone fucks that up for me I will stab them right in the face." "Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked up but you’d never guess it because we’ve either become adept at hiding it or we’ve learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. There’s a quote from The Breakfast Club that goes “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.” I have it on a poster but I took a Sharpie to it and scratched out the word “hiding” because it reminds me that there’s a certain pride and freedom that comes from wearing your unique bizarreness like a badge of honor." "If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science." "What I want you to know: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Clinical depression is no fucking picnic." "I AM GOING TO BE FURIOUSLY HAPPY, OUT OF SHEER SPITE." -Jenny Lawson (from her book 'Furiously Happy') Furiously Happy is the second book written by the humorist Jenny Lawson. A continuation of her previous autobiography Let's Pretend This Never Happened, this book deals more directly with Lawson's experience with mental illness, depression and anxiety. The title refers to Lawson's philosophy of being "furiously happy" after becoming so depressed that she eventually decided to force herself to be happy out of frustration and spite, driving herself to adventures and experiences in order to build happy memories to sustain her through bouts of depression. This propels her to do such things as travel to Australia in order to hug a koala while wearing a koala suit, to wear a fancy ballgown on ordinary occasions in order to feel beautiful, and to connect with people in the real world in spite of painful physical ability and severe social anxiety. She also related experiences of other mentally ill people who have gone on their own adventures after being inspired by her. Lawson's memoir also discusses the real challenges of mental illness, such as anxiety and depression. She fully puts these terms into perspective and the daily struggles one might face. One example of her realness is by explaining the physical and mental pain of public appearances such as book signings. Source: Wikipedia

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:84 W x 42 H x 2.5 D in

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