Ralph Kabakoff

“Whenever I try something new, my body will feel uncomfortable; this discomfort is a sign that I’m wiring a new circuit, one that wasn’t practiced in my earliest years. My discomfort is evidence of change . . . not evidence that I’m doing something wrong.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“You’re animals, and animals don’t have a purpose. Animals just are. And there are a lot of intelligent – sentient, maybe – animals out there who don’t have a problem with that. They just go on breathing and mating and eating each other without a second thought. But the animals like you – the ones who make tools and build cities and itch to explore, you all share a need for purpose. For reason. That”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit