Meg Lyman

“To ask whether it’s nature or nurture, says Kagan, is like asking whether a blizzard is caused by temperature or humidity. It’s the intricate interaction between the two that makes us who we are.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“As Parker Palmer said, “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.”
― Peter Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ

“God doesn’t give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. He gives them to us for the same reason he confused language at the Tower of Babel, to create chaos and deter us from investing too much energy in the gluttonous idols of self-absorption.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“a woman only loses herself when she stops looking, that no role is too confining or too grand for a woman of valor.”
― Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood