Nancy

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

“This is what fools people,” the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once observed. “A man is always a teller of stories. He lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and tries to live his life as if he were recounting them.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“There is no freedom without discipline, no vision without a form, no structure without a function.”
― David Allen, Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life

“Just like evolution, the key is realizing that the more perfect you try to become, the more vulnerable you generally are.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes