Katie

“Pathos is sad and inspires pity, but is not very interesting because there is nothing to learn from it; the audience experiences mostly pity and futility.”
― Paula LaRocque, The Book on Writing

“Before the breakdown, I was sweeter—judgmental, resentful, and angry on the inside—but sweeter on the outside. Today, I think I’m genuinely more compassionate, less judgmental and resentful, and way more serious about boundaries. I have no idea what this combination looks like on the outside, but it feels pretty powerful on the inside.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“Intuition is not a single way of knowing—it’s our ability to hold space for uncertainty and our willingness to trust the many ways we’ve developed knowledge and insight, including instinct, experience, faith, and reason.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity,
the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress--to the future. We often made fun of them and
played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they
represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But
the first death we saw shattered this belief.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front