Melissa Bernstein Quotes
27 quotes from Melissa Bernstein — Co-founder of Melissa & Doug, the beloved children's toy company known for wooden toys, arts & crafts, and screen-free….
“We can choose life and the attitude with which we greet each day.”
“I can either wallow in misery, imprisoned in my head ranting, raving and blaming others for my state, or choose to greet the world with positivity and desire to live life fully.”
“Choosing life also means I will offer self-kindness and compassion, no longer inflicting harm in criticizing, berating, starving, exhausting, second-guessing and tormenting myself.”
“I held ultimate control over life with my mindset, my choices, and the power to write my own life story.”
“We can choose to see the world awash in joy or steeped in gloom.”
“A wasteland can transform into a garden flush with bloom if we open up our eyes and simply revel in each day.”
“Finding promise reigns supreme with blue skies waiting past the gray.”
“The ability I have to shatter the image others have of you is empowering.”
“I learned to embrace my true self.”
“Creativity is a bridge between our rigid, analytical minds and our hearts.”
“I stepped completely off the path of near certain wealth, prestige, and 'success' conventionally defined, and chose to take a much riskier and uncertain path to doing something meaningful.”
“If I clear out all the other noise that can gather in my head and allow that inner voice to ring through, it nearly always asks the appropriate questions.”
“I can either wallow in misery... or choose to greet the world with positivity and desire to live life fully.”
“I will not allow dark days to convince me there are no light ones ahead.”
“Choosing life also means I will offer self-kindness and compassion.”
“A wasteland can transform into a garden flush with bloom if we open up our eyes.”
“The ability I have to shatter the image others have of you is scary but necessary.”
“I stepped completely off the path of near certain wealth... to do something meaningful.”
“If I clear out all the other noise... it nearly always asks the appropriate questions.”
“From my earliest recollections, I felt like I didn't belong here on Earth, and that something was profoundly wrong deep within my being. Why am I here? What is the meaning of life if we are all ultimately going to die? I felt utter despair.”
“At some point, the suffering becomes so great that you have to surrender. You have to say, I can no longer deny this despair, I have to dive in. I decided to reach out to one of my favorite podcasts and share my story. I was terrified, but I also felt crazily, strangely empowered.”
“It was only possible because I was so good at repression and literally repressing all of it. When you are that dark, and when you are that despairing and you let a little bit of it leak out, all I remember was the look of horror in people's eyes.”
“To the outside world, I lived a perfect life. And yet, at many points in my life, I wanted to end it all. Then one day, the cry of my own soul — my desire to be seen for who I really was — became so loud that I couldn't ignore it any longer.”
“I was so exhausted, because pain plus resistance equals suffering. I enlisted the help of a trained professional who became my partner in making this inward journey.”
“I implore you to get out of your heads, where fear, doubt, insecurity and worry lie, and move into your hearts, where it is all about experiencing each moment, taking risks and living life to the fullest even if you fall flat on your face.”
“I have been primarily guided by my own inner voice, which was squelched for so many years during childhood due to an excessive desire to please, that it made up for lost time from my early twenties on.”
“When you are that dark, and when you are that despairing and you let a little bit of it leak out, all I remember was the look of horror in people's eyes when I showed a little bit of that despondency. And they would say things like, 'Why are you talking like that?'”
