James

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“When abuse by authorities is both rampant and downplayed, a culture of distrust will emerge as a consequence.”
― Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

“School is not only a place to learn, but a place to learn how to learn.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Letters from an Astrophysicist

“Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Prodigal Son