Nicole

“No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“I gave up on being Nice. I started putting more value on other qualities instead: passion, bravery, intelligence, practicality, humor, patience, fairness, sensitivity. Those”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

“People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

“I quit calling [writing] a 'passion.' That word is so aggressive. It implies that if you aren't burning for what you do, then you aren't living right. I don't want to burn -- at least not all the time. I want to lean into the steady goodness of making good things. I like calling writing my 'interest' or 'the channel through which I sense myself and serve others.”
― Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are