Sarah

“I take no medications, unless you count melted cheese. (And I do.)”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“We project our individual mental experience into the world, and thereby mistake our mental experience to be the physical world, oblivious to the shaping of perception by our sensory systems, personal histories, goals, and expectations,” Proffitt and co-author Drake Baer later wrote in their book Perception.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“Receptivity without confrontation leads to a bland neutrality that serves nobody,” the theologian Henri Nouwen wrote. “Confrontation without receptivity leads to an oppressive aggression which hurts everybody.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“Postal clerks are like priests, doctors, and lawyers. They feel ethically bound to protect privileged information, and they respect their clients’ privacy.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me