Ted Friedli

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing. This means we can’t use self-hate to lose weight, we can’t shame ourselves into becoming better parents and we can’t belittle ourselves or our families into becoming who we need them to be. Putting people on the “loser board” doesn’t work. Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
― Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

“People talked more openly to a psychiatrist than they did to a priest because a doctor couldn't threaten them with Hell”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“If i could have done it all again, i would have love you better. But i could not have loved you more.”
― Sue Zhao