Cynthia

“Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.”
― John O'Donohue

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

“Painting done” means fully walking through my expectations of what the completed task will look like, including when it will be done, what I’ll do with the information, how it will be used, the context, the consequences of not doing it, the costs—everything we can think of to paint a shared picture of the expectations. It’s one of the most powerful tools we have.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience