Kate Walters

“Lindsay was a tough kid, donning a mask of self-reliance and stubbornness that served her well through childhood, and then eventually that mask fused to her real face. The question was how well that mask was still working for her now: hypervigilant, uncomfortable with failure, terrified to present herself to others as anything less than perfect.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“serious?” I believe we unconsciously abide by this principle because our notion of work is rooted in an industrial economy that values efficiency and structure at the expense of joy and creativity.”
― Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

“This is important because research shows that we’re attracted to environments with a moderately high degree of complexity, but only if the complexity is well structured. The greater the complexity in an environment, the greater the need for an underlying harmony to bring a sense of order and ease to a space.”
― Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

“Now I recognize that burnout often has as much boredom in it as exhaustion.”
― Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness