Tricia

“Uncertainty also relieves us of our judgment of ourselves. Then we don’t know if we’re lovable or not; we don’t know how attractive we are; we don’t know how successful we could potentially become. The only way to achieve these things is to remain uncertain of them and be open to finding them out through experience. Uncertainty is the root of all progress and all growth. As the old adage goes, the man who believes he knows everything learns nothing. We cannot learn anything without first not knowing something.”
― mark manson

“Women of any race shouldn’t have to be superstars for our status as mothers to be respected, no matter what each woman’s path to motherhood is.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

“Becoming a mother forced me to have hope.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive. We”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life