“when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions.”
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
“We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilderness, we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters the most.”
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
“Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“متى نظرت المرأة إلى رجل تعجب به كانت نظراتها الأولى متحيرة، قلقة، غير مطمئنة، معناها: هل هو أنت؟
فإذا داخلها الحب واطمأنت جاءت نظراتها مسترسلة، متذللة، متأنثة، معناها: هو أنت.”
― كلمة وكليمة
فإذا داخلها الحب واطمأنت جاءت نظراتها مسترسلة، متذللة، متأنثة، معناها: هو أنت.”
― كلمة وكليمة
“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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