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Chrissy Stockton Quotes

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“Love, I am learning, is too big to just be about what I get out of it.”
— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords
Tagged: bigger than me, What Is Love, Love (The Concept)
“I know I’m not supposed to say this
but the smell of tobacco on you
does things to me
I would not want my mom —
or the Surgeon General
to know.”
— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords
Tagged: In love, smoking, Smell Of Love
“Happiness comes as the result of conflict, resolution, and growth — as the result of having to work at something.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 19 Things I’ve Learned By Writing Every Day For 4 Years
Tagged: Happiness, Conflict, Growth, H4D-20, Motivational
“I am not asking for much. I just want an entire galaxy to be created so that it can exist between us.”
— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords
Tagged: Love, Create A Universe for Us, Examples of Understatement
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”
— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords
Tagged: Freedom of Expression, Letting Go, Be yourself
“A memory might not leave you alone the way you want it to, but it can’t hurt you. It’s mortal the way we are, it dies when you neglect it.”
— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords
Tagged: Memories, memories can't hurt you, Forget the past
“All night I was rolling over and smelling you.
All night I was rolling over and thinking about how you make me forget which way all my limbs are supposed to go.”
— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords
Tagged: Up All Night, Awake, I Miss You
“We are young enough that driving in these early morning hours still feels like we are getting away with something.”
— Chrissy Stockton, The Eleventh Of September In A Year I Can’t Remember
Tagged: Cars, Driving, Americana, 20-Somethings, Dashboard confessional
“Sometimes you get hurt and the hurt sticks around for a little while. It's okay. It will pass.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Your Heart Will Heal
Tagged: Shop Catalog
“I love being transparent because when I am transparent no one can take anything away from me. I am in full possession of all my strengths and all my weaknesses. No one can point out what I haven’t already.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 5 things 1.18.17
Tagged: Transparency, Honesty, Radical Honesty, Flaws, Being Honest
“If you can’t handle me at my J.K. Rowling you don’t deserve me at my Joan Didion.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Ranking The Men On This Season Of ‘The Bachelorette’ By How Depressing They Seem
Tagged: humor, Harry Potter, LMAO
“I just don’t for a second, in any possible universe, believe there is an all-knowing creature who is going to scoff at me in the afterlife.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Another Way To Think About It
Tagged: God, Heaven, Redemption, Healing, The Afterlife
“You can’t go into the world with a stencil of what you want and then think less of people because they’re just doing their own thing.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Does Anyone Else Feel More Alone When They’re Dating Someone?
Tagged: Quote of the Moment, accepting people as they are, Loving People, Love, Expectations
“There's so much money to be made as a self-help writer I think, because we all want to believe that there is just one piece that we are missing, some learning we can apply to our lives and it will make everything make sense.”
— Chrissy Stockton
Tagged: Why Self-Help Writing Makes So Much Money, Writing, Economics of Writing, Self-Help Publishing, Quote of the Moment
“Someone told me Betty White was 96 the other day and I got extremely stressed out. Who would want to live to be 96? I can’t imagine 6 more decades of this shit.”
— Chrissy Stockton, A Story About Feeling Bad
Tagged: Betty White, humor, Existential dread
“I have the privilege to have a lot of control over my life and what I spend time doing.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 5 Things(10.27.17)
Tagged: 5 things, Stream of Consciousness, Privilege, Stress
“I'm not asking you to be kind to a politician’s body because the politician deserves it, but rather, because everyone else does.”
— Chrissy Stockton, When You Call Trump Fat, You're Actually Calling Me Ugly
Tagged: body shaming, Body Image, Eating Disorder, Fatphobia, Bodies
“My brain is doing what my brain is supposed to do and looking for predators. It doesn’t want me to brush all these threats off, it wants me to survive and in what kind of quality is an afterthought.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Me And My Monkey Brain
Tagged: Anxiety, Insomnia, yoga, Predators, Evolution, Monkey Brain
“There is a standard amount of baggage or depravity or issues that everyone has. It’s life, and we deal with it and we learn how to love people anyway.”
— Chrissy Stockton, I Never Thought That I Would Have To Ask Someone To Love Me While I Was Still So Unloveable
Tagged: Love, Unloveable, Imperfections
“The way to get rid of shame is to pull it out of the dark and talk about it, which is exactly the opposite thing you feel like doing when you experience shame.”
— Chrissy Stockton, When You Call Trump Fat, You're Actually Calling Me Ugly
Tagged: Trump, Body Image
“There is endless complaining about the expectations put on creatives that don’t actually feel like a burden to actual creatives. Like, wow, 'create something today' how restrictive.”
— Chrissy Stockton, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Tagged: Philosophy, The Person You'll Become
“I am compassionate with myself when I’m not perfect. Recovery is not linear.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 49 Things That Have Helped Me Stop Binge Eating, Even If They Seemed Small At The Time
Tagged: Self-Compassion, Recovery, Quote of the Moment
“You only lost something you never had. If he wanted to be with you, he would be with you. All that you lost was an idea you had about what one version of your future might have been.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 100 Stupidly Simple Statements That Will Help You Get Over A Guy
“One of the scariest comments I read all the time across different platforms (but especially on Thought Catalog) is ‘you call this journalism?’

No.

No one has called any of this journalism.”
— Chrissy Stockton, How To Read An Article On The Internet
Tagged: All Thinking is Relevant, food 4 thought
“I am following that shadowy voice inside, this much I know for sure.”
— Chrissy Stockton, On Living Your Own Strange Life
Tagged: Inner Voice, Damon, Voice From Within, Clusters of Hidden Personalities, Certain Voices, Existential Situation, My Philosophy
“Don’t sell me your tragedy when your life is amazing.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Texts
Tagged: Tragedy, Life, Moving On, Honesty, Being Real
“The real issue is that people don’t want opinions they disagree with to be published. They don’t want writing that they don’t judge to be good to be published. They want their meal to come to them prepackaged and maybe even spooned directly into their mouth.”
— Chrissy Stockton, The Myth Of The Hate Click
Tagged: food 4 thought, All Thinking is Relevant
“Everyone on Twitter is wrong.”
— Chrissy Stockton
Tagged: Twitter, Digital Dialogue
“You’ll realize you weren’t who you were supposed to be when you were with him, you were who he wanted you to be. You can no longer rely on him to distract you from the person you know you need and want to become. You have time and energy to focus on selfish pursuits that will improve your quality of life for decades to come.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 100 Stupidly Simple Statements That Will Help You Get Over A Guy
“No, I don’t think being overweight is healthy. Yes, I believe it is something to work on. But how many dispositions of malice, how many fundamentally terrible personality traits do we not treat in this same way? Many fat people become fat because they hate themselves and are paralyzed in this space. We are all faulty, we all need to understand how to be gracious with ourselves, how to move forward bit by bit.”
— Chrissy Stockton, You’re Allowed To Be Fat
Tagged: Why Aren't We Perfect?, Cast the First Stone, The Plank In Your Own Eye, Quote of the Moment
“The moral of the story is: don’t trust people who want to sell you answers. Don’t trust people who tell you they have found Answers. Run away from people who tell you about their transformation. Call their bluff when they tell you they are living in their happily ever after. These things aren’t real, however much we want them to be. However much we *need* them to be. It’s an illusion, a trick, and the years of your life are too valuable to pay this price.”
— Chrissy Stockton, on grifter writers and religion and john edward
Tagged: Before and after, Why we believe what we believe, Sociology, Religion
“We think of forest fires as these devastating events that we need to stop, but they are actually vital to ecological health of an area. There are plants that require the heat of a wildfire for their seeds to burst open and plant themselves in the earth. There are others that are meant to be flammable, so that fires quells competition. As it turns out, forests are made to have a periodic cleansing by fire. Your heart is made this way, also.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, 100 Reasons Losing Him Is Not A Loss
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“I want people to express themselves and we want people to get better — to be nicer and more understanding of each other.

I think saying that is going to be a big laugh for a lot of people, like, ‘how can you say you want people to be nice when you let assholes have a voice?’ And the answer is pretty simple — because people don’t disappear just because you don’t let them speak. Jezebel has been making fun of those they judge to be misogynists and assholes forever, do they think the population of them has decreased as a result?”
— Chrissy Stockton, The Myth Of The Hate Click
Tagged: food 4 thought, All Thinking is Relevant
“If we want people to agree with us, or at least see our perspective, we have to do the work of convincing them. We can’t shame people into being more loving. We can’t hate people into agreeing with us. We can listen, we can provide them the catharsis of being heard. We can expose ourselves to the vulnerability of being human and explain where we come from. This is the only way we as a community of people can get better, by being honest about what the problem is and not being too-good for the solution. It’s not pretty or easy or quick — we’re probably not even aware of the seeds we plant in people that take years to blossom into new ideas and ways of thinking, but this is the only way people really change.”
— Chrissy Stockton, The Myth Of The Hate Click
Tagged: food 4 thought, All Thinking is Relevant
“But there are people who think everything on the internet is intended to be journalism. They go into reading anything as if the intent of that writing is altruistic, created primarily to inform the reader. They do this when the more obvious intent is to entertain them which is the intent of every for-profit site on the internet, even those that brand themselves as if they are doing journalism. Probably most of what you read is not journalism.”
— Chrissy Stockton, How To Read An Article On The Internet
Tagged: All Thinking is Relevant, food 4 thought
“Would you rather have everything you’ve ever wanted but you die in one year or live your life as it is now?”
— Chrissy Stockton, 50 “Would You Rather?”s That Will Destroy You Forever
Tagged: Would You Rather, Questions
“Would you rather have your SO look through all your text/chat/email history or your employer?”
— Chrissy Stockton, 50 “Would You Rather?”s That Will Destroy You Forever
Tagged: Would You Rather, Questions
“Would you rather smell terrible (but you can’t smell it) or your partner smell terrible and you have to smell it?”
— Chrissy Stockton, 50 “Would You Rather?”s That Will Destroy You Forever
Tagged: Would You Rather, Questions
“Find a coffeehouse that has live music and go there for a night. Even if you have two drinks each coffee is inexpensive and you’ll have paid less than $10 each for a whole night’s activity.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 50 Fun, Cheap Dates(That Aren’t Netflix)
Tagged: valentine's day, Coffee, Music
“A few things you should do for your partner every day: hug them, caress them, kiss them, hold their hand.”
— Chrissy Stockton, 11 Things You Need To Know Before You Date Someone Whose Love Language Is ‘Touch’
Tagged: hugs, Kisses, Hand Holding, H4D-11
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