Justine

“Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds”
― Creative Communications for the Parish, Reading God's Word 2026: Daily and Sunday Mass Readings Church Year A

“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

“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

“It was nearly always mindless work”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred