Krista

“There's a curious thing about pain, said Audrey [Hepburn]. In the beginning it's an enemy. It's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years goes by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them that they were alive. My experiences and the people I lost in the war remain so vivid for me, because of the pain.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“Reverse engineer an outcome: Think of what you want to be different because you gathered, and work backward from that outcome.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“Take the reasons you think you are gathering—because it’s our departmental Monday-morning meeting; because it’s a family tradition to barbecue at the lake—and keep drilling below them. Ask why you’re doing it. Every time you get to another, deeper reason, ask why again. Keep asking why until you hit a belief or value.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“If we work at it, it's always possible that we can find a fashionable explanation for what we don't understand. But perhaps it is wiser once in a while to accept that we don't understand and stop there. To explain is sometimes to diminish. And what does it matter if I believe one thing and you believe another. We shared the same end.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy