"vulnerability is the best measure of courage." - brene brown

"if you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. there is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." - fred rogers, the world according to mister rogers

“life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be so they will be sympathetic to others. so they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.” - matthew quick, the silver linings playbook

"sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist the feeling, or the shame that grow up like thorns around it." - olivia laing, the lonely city