Kierstin

“The reason that kids need to learn to read so early in school is because in school kids read about doing stuff instead of doing stuff. When kids live life outside of school they actually get to do stuff, so it’s not as important to read about it in order to learn.”
― Linda Nielson

“Though you work like mad to keep parts of you undiscovered, it is horrible to imagine that you will be completely successful. As the psychologist D.W. Winnicott wrote, "It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.”
― Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

“Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance”
― Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Aurelius says that one reason it doesn't matter how long you live is that this is not theatre, that the whole is not the thing. Each moment is the thing. "The soul obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed. Not as...in a play...where the whole action is incomplete if anything cuts it short; but in every part and wherever it be stopped, it makes what has been set before it full and complete, so that it can say, 'I have what is my own.”
― Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong