Madalina Barcar

“But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them . Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“This is a magical place,” I said. “Everything shines here.” “You must stop yourself from thinking like that,” Dr. Kerry said, his voice raised. “You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Of course, rationally I knew the universe wasn’t fair and was never going to be—there are no rules or standards for who wins and who loses. Life isn’t fair even when we ostensibly have some degree of control. Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.”
― Susan D Hoben, Dying Well: Our Journey of Love and Loss