Will

“While self-flagellation seems motivating—especially to Americans, whose mental models of motivation often begin with howling, red-faced, vein-popping football coaches—it often produces helplessness. Self-compassion, by contrast, prompts people to confront their difficulties head-on and take responsibility for them, researchers have found.”
― Daniel H. Pink, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

“A racist is someone who is supporting a racist policy by their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea. An antiracist is someone who is supporting an antiracist policy by their actions or expressing an antiracist idea.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“You will never rise above your level of self-awareness. The things we deny about ourselves are the very things that deny us from the fullness of God.”
― Rob Reimer, Soul Care: 7 Transformational Principles for a Healthy Soul

“One of the great tragedies of man’s long trek along the highway of history has been the limiting of neighborly concern to tribe, race, class or nation.” The consequence of this narrow, insular attitude “is that one does not really mind what happens to the people outside his group.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness