Justine

“That the fact that he had been born, that he wasn’t in a jail cell somewhere, was not by dint of his pulling himself up by the bootstraps, not by hard work or belief in the American Dream, but by mere chance.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Their greatest desire was to love each other. Desire. Isn’t that all that really matters? The desire to love and be loved and the desire to know and love God”
― Gary Smith, Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

“The notion of intrinsic motivation or self-generated drive is held as the ideal, but ADHD is characterized by motivation difficulties. There is nothing wrong with extrinsic motivation, using accountability to others and rewards to help you get engaged in a task, which you can think of as outsourcing accountability (which is not the same as outsourcing responsibility).”
― J. Russell Ramsay, The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out

“The underlying message was this: if you want your report to impact a perpetrator’s career or education, you have to be willing to take a hit, too.”
― Nicole Bedera, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence