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“Each time you protect your energy, you send a powerful message: “I value myself”
― Trent Shelton, Protect Your Peace: Nine Unapologetic Principles for Thriving in a Chaotic World

“Everyone at the University of Chicago was smart—there was no arguing that—but Elaine was a world-wise woman among children, with a mind that seemed to run only at high speed, a cruel wit that could be weaponized at a moment’s notice, and an intimidating raw and unbalanced intelligence that came from all those years of skipping school to devour books on her own instead.”
― Carrie Courogen, Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

“Chasing is tiring. It’s hard—way too hard. Some of us are working too hard. Working too hard to make people like us. Working too hard to impress others. Working too hard to be something we’re not. Some of us are even working too hard to impact people. That may sound crazy, but if you are”
― Trent Shelton, Protect Your Peace: Nine Unapologetic Principles for Thriving in a Chaotic World

“Nipsey Hussle said it best: “Would you rather be at peace with the world and at war with yourself? Or be at war with the world and at peace with yourself?”
― Trent Shelton, Protect Your Peace: Nine Unapologetic Principles for Thriving in a Chaotic World