Nadine

“Everything sounds like crap until you are in the right mind-set.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

“when you negate someone’s compliment, you are telling them they are wrong. You’re telling them they wasted their time. You are questioning their taste and judgment. You are insulting them. If someone wants to compliment you, let them.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

“Fault finding and unkind criticism are not service either to God
or to man. It is our own deeds that we must examine and criticise, but
service is to discover and exalt the good in others and aid them in
their efforts for good.”
― Thornton Chase, Bahai Revelation

“If we look at history - those of us who study it, who can remember it - we understand the reason why those who come to power swiftly, amid extreme national crises, are so dangerous: during such crises, we all turn into children aching for a good father. And the truth is, in our fear and despair, we'll take any father. Even if his furor is dangerous. It's as if humans can't understand how to function without a father. Perhaps especially then, we mistake heroic agency for its dark other.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan