My Favorite Quotes

Anyone who truly knows me has heard me at least once say “All I need is a pen and paper and I am the happiest person on this earth”. I don’t remember when or how I fell in love with writing. I don’t recall a specific moment in my life when I discovered my predilection…

A few days ago, I had a friend read my latest post: “What drives me”. When I asked what she thought about it, she only had one question in her mind: “What about the women?” “What do you mean?” “What about the women’s rights?” Then she began telling me about the plight of women around…

In the documentary Cristiano Ronaldo: Tested to the Limit, researchers examined everything from Ronaldo’s physical abilities to his cognitive performance in an effort to understand what makes him one of the world’s greatest footballers. Successful people have long fascinated researchers across a wide range of disciplines. Psychologists study their personalities and behaviors, neuroscientists study their…

I’ve always had two superpowers. First, I can always tell when an avocado is perfectly ripe. I somehow always manage to pick the best ones. Considering how expensive avocados are, it’s a rather useful superpower. The second one is invisibility. I’ve always been invisible. Always been the one people forget, the one they don’t notice,…

The past few weeks of my life have been largely focused on elderly people. First, my grandmother suffered a fall in the bathroom and became bedridden. My grandfather was suddenly left to take care of all the chores around the house. Only a week later, he was diagnosed with four blood clots and needed emergency…

There was a guy in my class in middle school whom I remember vividly. He skipped many classes and in the classes he did attend, he slept through most of them. Every now and then he would wake up from his nap and speak out of turn. He would often question what the teacher was…

I was twelve years old when I watched my first handball game on TV. It was a quarterfinal in the Swedish Championship between Hammarby IF and Eskilstuna GUIF. GUIF had to win or face elimination. There was one player in the GUIF team in particular who caught my attention. He was only seventeen years old…

The idea for this post came to me after watching a documentary called The strongest wins – which follows young men as they open up and share their experiences with male body ideals and eating disorders. The documentary aims to portray the world young men are exposed to every day, where “muscles have become the…

I have over 7,000 pictures saved on my phone and probably half of them are quotes. I think it’s safe to say that I’m a huge lover of quotes. Therefore, putting together a post featuring my favorites has been particularly challenging – I’ve had quite a few to sort through. What makes a quote truly…

When I was younger, I read a self-help book about the power of gratitude. The book recommended writing down ten things you were grateful for each night before falling asleep. The purpose was to shift your focus from negative to positive ones – or even to what I’d call “positive negatives”, such as being grateful…