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Born Survivors
“We never thought anything would happen to us. We felt invincible,” ~Wendy Holden
A Wrinkle in Time
“There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.” ~Madeleine L'Engle
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
“My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.” ~Livia Bitton-Jackson
Professional Troublemaker
“We will ruffle feathers. We might be the villains in a few people’s stories. We might even blow up a few bridges. But our worth is not based on how much we acquiesced to the people we knew. The goal is to betray ourselves less. So, be kind but take no s**t.” ~Luvvie Ajayi Jones
The Screwtape Letters
“Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.” ~C.S. Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” ~Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ~Jane Austen
Braving the Wilderness
"True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." ~Brené Brown
We Bought a Zoo
“Throwing yourself into worthwhile, fruitful hard work that you believe in, as much as you can handle and more, is a kind of luxury not everyone gets to experience.” ~Benjamin Mee
The Collapse of Parenting
“The child expects to look up to the parent, to be instructed by the parent… but if the parent instead serves the child, then that relationship falls out of its natural balance. You may not earn your child’s love at all” ~Leonard Sax
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
― Brené Brown
White Fragility
“The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people is at the root of virtually all white defensiveness on this topic.” ~Robin DiAngelo
Daring Greatly
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.” ~Brené Brown
Necessary Endings
“Failing well means ending something that is not working and choosing to do something else better.” ~Dr Henry Cloud
Rising Strong
“It’s always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.” ~Brené Brown
I Thought It Was Just Me
“Nothing silences us more effectively than shame.” ~Brené Brown