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“If we share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.” ~Brene Brown

“If you are not the free person you want to be, you must find a place to tell the truth about that.” ~Anne Carson

“Without tenderness, we are all in hell.” ~Adrienne Rich

“What we don’t say/we carry in our suitcases, coat pockets, our/nostrils.” ~Ilya Kaminsky

“We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking it we learn to be human.” ~Hannah Arendt

“I hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.” ~Nikita Gill

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ~John Muir

“The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can’t understand.” ~Elena Ferrante

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~Maya Angelou

“An empty space is a space for questions, not for answers. And what we don’t know is infinite.” ~Jenny Erpenbeck