Meredith

“It’s alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you’re doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything else. But it’s liberating, too, because it removes a central reason for feeling self-conscious or inhibited about your performance in those domains in the present moment: if the feeling of total authority is never going to arrive, you might as well not wait any longer to give such activities your all—to put bold plans into practice, to stop erring on the side of caution. It is even more liberating to reflect that everyone else is in the same boat, whether they’re aware of it or not.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame.”
― Uncle Iroh

“Lining up in a row with their hands on their hips like a row of teapots.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.”
― Uncle Iroh