Katherine Gates

“When feeling is for thinking and thinking is for doing, regret is for making us better.”
― Daniel H. Pink, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

“That’s not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it’s . . . it doesn’t even compare.’ ‘Why? Because it’s worse?’ She nodded. ‘But it still compares. If you have a fractured bone, and I’ve broken every bone in my body, does that make your fracture go away? Does it hurt you any less, knowing that I am in more pain?”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“We’re not saying that “beautiful” is what your body should be; we’re saying beautiful is what your body already is.”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle