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Meghan Nesmith Quotes

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“As difficult as it might be to imagine investing when you are struggling with debt or have a salary that doesn’t stretch far, it is the single best thing you can do to plan for your future.”
— Meghan Nesmith, Financial Advice for Young People
Tagged: Financial Advice, Investing
“Metaphorically, the unconscious is like one of our inner organs, your slippery liver or a beet-purple kidney: it’s there, you know it exists because, well, you’re alive, but you can’t see it directly.”
— Meghan Nesmith, The Science Behind Why Your Dreams Are So Weird
Tagged: Dreams, Subconscious
“I take comfort in the past. I draw my memories around me like a warm blanket. But I also rehash and replay, question decisions, can’t get over anything, rebel against the passage of time.”
— Meghan Nesmith, Can Nostalgia Ever Be Good For You? I Asked a Therapist
Tagged: Memories, Nostalgia
“Taking food out of the Tupperware before heating it up. Did you know you were supposed to do this? I did, but also, I’m hungry.”
— Meghan Nesmith, 8 Weird Signs You Know You're Finally Growing Up
Tagged: LOL, Growing Up, Adulting, Weird
“The unconscious, that tricky beast, is difficult to access, and dreams (said Jung) give us some access to that underground part of ourselves.”
— Meghan Nesmith, The Science Behind Why Your Dreams Are So Weird- Man Repeller
Tagged: Dreams, What Do Dreams Mean, Dream Meanings, Science, Psychology
“Learning to be alone is one of the hardest and the best things I’ve ever done for myself.”
— Meghan Nesmith, How to Navigate the Slippery Slope Between “Me Time” and Isolation
Tagged: Isolation, Being Alone, Friendships
“Dreams change. Life upends us, or we upend life.”
— Meghan Nesmith, 3 Women on How Their Dreams and Career Paths Changed
Tagged: Career, Dreams
“What I’m talking about when I talk about One Direction is the experience of joy, the kind of joy you can only get from a thing outside you and independent of you, the kind of joy that threatens to dismantle all the safeguards you’ve erected against vulnerability.”
— Meghan Nesmith, A List of All the Crushes I've Had, In No Particular Order
Tagged: crushes, chemistry, Love, sweet
“The absolute only way to be in full control of your money is to ask all of the questions, no matter how small or seemingly stupid. This isn’t uncouth — it’s shrewd and resourceful. If people take offense to your questions, a simple 'Sorry about that, I’m just trying to become more financially educated,' can ease the tension.”
— Meghan Nesmith, What I Wish I’d Known About Money in My Twenties
Tagged: Money
“Over the past few years I’ve done things I would never have had the gumption to do when I was younger, like take a Beyoncé dance class, or use the word “gumption” in an article that other, much-cooler individuals will read. But there’s true beauty in realizing no one is watching to see if you’ll fail, because we’re all too worried about our own failures to look up.”
— Meghan Nesmith, 8 Weird Signs You Know You're Finally Growing Up
Tagged: Failure, Humiliation, Growing Up
“The truth is, partnership is tenuous, and the current prevailing model was constructed only after thousands of years of different examples, most completely unrelated to a modern understanding of Western marriage, and which for a long time excluded interracial and queer couples. My in-laws, together over 45 years, were brought together by their families in an arranged marriage, and their version of partnership, love and happiness is very different than my own. They have raised two children and still hold hands when walking over uneven terrain; who’s to say their love is less than mine or yours? Who’s to say that any love isn’t worthy of awe?”
— Meghan Nesmith, Why Do Some People Find Polyamorous People Threatening?
Tagged: Relationships
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