“When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.” ~ Stephen Covey “The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.” ~ Oprah Winfrey “I alwaysContinue reading “Empathy and Mean Memes”
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Thank You Harper Lee
“Success should always call for showing greater kindness, generosity and justice; only people lost in the darkness treat it as an occasion for greater greed.” ~ Cyrus the Great “Words, in my humble opinion, are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” ~ Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 “You never really understandContinue reading “Thank You Harper Lee”
Feminist Traitors?
“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.” ~ Paul Brunton “There’s just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.” ~ Kathleen Hanna “My feminism is humanism, withContinue reading “Feminist Traitors?”
Restless Anticipation
“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre “There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it … Oh, something is there,Continue reading “Restless Anticipation”
Woes and Rewards of Writing
“Honesty is your innate ability to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may and say what it will so that you may know who you are beyond the realm of ideas.” ~ Matt Kahn, Whatever Arises, Love That. “When I run after what I think I want, my days are aContinue reading “Woes and Rewards of Writing”
Sage Woman Chronicles 