What you have to know is that suffering is just the refusal to accept what is. - Brianna Wiest

When you regulate your daily actions, you deactivate your “fight or flight” instincts because you’re no longer confronting the unknown.

How you judge other people. What you first reach to insult someone with — especially when it’s physical — says infinitely more of you than them.

We all fear that our feelings are too big, especially in the moment we’re actually having them. We were taught not be too loving, we’d get hurt; too smart, we’d get bullied; too fearful, we’d be vulnerable. To be compliant with what other people wanted us to feel. As kids we were punished for crying out if our emotional experience wasn’t in accordance with our parents' convenience. (No wonder we still respond the way we do.)