Sarai

“When artists are burdened with the label of “genius,” I think they lose the ability to take themselves lightly, or to create freely.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Dehumanizing and holding people accountable are mutually exclusive. Humiliation and dehumanizing are not accountability or social justice tools, they’re emotional off-loading at best, emotional self-indulgence at worst. And if our faith asks us to find the face of God in everyone we meet, that should include the politicians, media, and strangers on Twitter with whom we most violently disagree. When we desecrate their divinity, we desecrate our own, and we betray our faith.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you’re still here.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone