“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Putting others first
Pain
“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”
-Jim Butcher
Too comfortable??
Honesty
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory.” —Mark Twain
Telling the truth
Creative kindness
Blisters…
Fear
“I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
-Frank Herbert, Dune, “Litany Against Fear”