Claudia Schmidt

“Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“The idea that came into my head wasn’t as new as it was when it came into Petrarch’s, but it still felt like a discovery to me: you can—you should—travel for no reason at all.”
― Matthew Kepnes, Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home

“Stamina is essential to stay focused in a life filled with distraction. It is the ability to stick to a task when your body and mind are at their limit, the ability to keep your head down, swimming in your lane, without looking around, worrying who might overtake you . .”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“If leaders really want people to show up, speak out, take chances, and innovate, we have to create cultures where people feel safe—where their belonging is not threatened by speaking out and they are supported when they make the decision to brave the wilderness, stand alone, and speak truth to bullshit.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone