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“How many of us have walked through fires again and again, and yet we’ve never taken time to pause and celebrate the resilience developed from it?”
― Me Ra Koh, 4 Minutes to Hear God's Voice

“Love is the antidote to fear. Fear causes you to shrink and withhold; love opens you up.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“To be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter another’s world without prejudice. In some sense it means that you lay aside yourself and this can only be done by a person who is secure enough in himself that he knows he will not get lost in what may turn out to be the strange or bizarre world of the other, and can comfortably return to his own world when he wishes. Perhaps this description makes clear that being empathic is a complex demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being. (Rogers,”
― Karen R Kleiman, The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead