Defensiveness never precedes growth, it stunts it. - Brianna Wiest

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

The universe whispers until it screams, and happy people listen while the call is still quiet

The people you smiled at on the street this morning, the people whom you text regularly, the family you could stand to visit more — all the little bits of genuine human connection that you overlook because they’ve become givens.