Deana

“You likely are acutely aware of the endless dichotomies of life—that you cannot have joy without sorrow, or that your strength and resilience as an HSP come with incredible vulnerability. Combined with the physical exhaustion from your heightened central nervous system activity, you may feel tired and overwhelmed frequently. These conflicting needs mean you must navigate many types of grief in everyday life: from classic grief around mortality to the ever-present grief that you cannot do all the things, be all the things, or have all the things. There is the grief that injustice is everywhere, whether it’s to your advantage or disadvantage. There is the grief that comes with shifting relationships, new stages of life, unmet expectations, and changes in your abilities or looks.”
― Amanda Cassil, The Self-Care Plan for the Highly Sensitive Person

“The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible.”
― Robert Harris, Conclave

“I don’t know”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“Yet most modern societies further stimulate generational consciousness by creating a special adolescent “borderline” phase of life between childhood and adulthood. This is when peer bonds are forged in a mighty youth-culture cauldron—a time when, as parents know full well (and as researchers confirm), peer pressure strongly competes with family influence. Modern adolescence stimulates strong peer bonding. And only through peer bonding does a generation acquire a sense of its own destiny. As Yale developmental psychiatrist John Schowalter puts it: “Going from child to adult, you go over a bridge of your peers.”
― Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End