Emily

“Sometimes one forgives in order to remain in a relationship with someone she cares about, even if the person has caused her pain and anguish. It's not a blanket pardon; it's the trade-off one is willing to make when preserving the relationship is more important than correcting the injustice.”
― Carolyn Jessop, Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons

“You can’t put your life on hold for somebody else, you know? Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to make yourself happy. And if you’re not, like, solid with yourself, how can you help somebody else?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Don't buy the lie that a full schedule means productivity or holiness or achievement.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle

“You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don’t have enough doubts about them.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know