Amanda Johnson

“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Am I following a path already laid out for me, or am I making it myself?”
― Anthony Doerr, About Grace

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson