We we self-deprecate and we sort of downplay ourselves and our dreams throughout our life. Especially for people who grow up in marginalized communities and people who are not necessarily, you know, born and raised here or people who come from immigrant or refugee families and it's time to sort of reclaim ourselves and our dreams and our narratives.
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We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust — In Search of Lost Time
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock of the air in motion.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel — Journal Intime
We spend so much time preparing ourselves for disappointment that we rarely consider the opposite skill: how to receive success, happiness, love, or abundance without immediately bracing for its disappearance. When life becomes better than we imagined, we sometimes stop trusting that it will last & we start waiting for the other shoe to drop. We become so afraid of losing the thing we love that we don't even enjoy having it.
Polina Pompliano