Colleen

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“When you want to comfort someone don’t listen to their words; the words may be misleading or wrong…go straight to their heart, straight to their hurt. Their words may be pushing you away, but they still need comforting.”
― Brian L. Weiss, Through Time Into Healing

“positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.”
― Tara Westover, Educated