Jesse

“It turns out that people with a stress-is-enhancing mindset are more likely to be optimists, but the correlation is small. In addition to optimism, two other personality traits seem to be associated with a more positive view of stress: mindfulness and the ability to tolerate uncertainty.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

“The struggle to find a poetry in which your survival rather than your defeat is celebrated, perhaps to find your own voice to insist upon that, or to at least find a way to survive amidst an ethos that relishes your erasures and failures is work that many and perhaps most young women have to do”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“I've never been interested in being invisible and erased.”
― Laverne Cox

“Stress happens when something you care about is at stake. It's not a sign to run away - it's a sign to step forward.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It