The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“This is what parents do—what all of us do, in fact, when we’re at our unrivaled best. We bind ourselves to those… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“What use are experiences if we're not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain and loss?… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Your personality is so convinced that the habit thoughts running along with your body are you that it comes up with any… — William Douglas Horden Copy Share Image
