Annie

“If we're afraid to have boundaries, it means we care more about what others think of us than what we think about ourselves. In doing so we lose respect for ourselves, and our self-esteem suffers. Others lose respect for us, too.”
― A.B. Admin, Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

“Experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“I want to live with deep intimacy every day of my life. I am guided, sometimes driven, by an ache to take the necessary risks that will let me live close to what is within and around me. And I am sometimes afraid that it will be too much, that I will not have, or be connected to, whatever it takes to be with it all, to bear the exquisite beauty and bone-wrenching sorrow of being fully alive.”
― Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Invitation

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming