“I always thought that the “thriving” would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned is that it’s actually down in the mess that things get good.”
― The Magnolia Story
― The Magnolia Story
“Striving is stealing our joy, our moments.”
― Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
― Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
“Sexism is all the big and little ways that society draws a box around women and says, 'You stay in there.”
― What Happened
― What Happened
“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. —Flannery O’Connor”
― What Happened
― What Happened
“I mean, that's life. Life is never predictable. Life is never really manageable. If your mind-set is always, "I'm just surviving", it seems to me that would wind up being the mind-set for the rest of your life. You'd just get stuck in it.”
― The Magnolia Story
― The Magnolia Story
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