Counting the Cost

by Jill Duggar

It turns out that living with fearful thoughts is a lot like living with hornets and garter snakes. Once they find a way in, you can block as many holes as you like, but the struggle to keep them out will require constant vigilance. And when they do get in—which they will—the memory of all those previous attacks will make whatever you’re facing so much worse.

“Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too.”