Tim

“If your son or brother or father has depression—just put your arm around him. Just listen. Let him explain if he wants to. Just let him lean on you if that's all he wants to do. You don't need to give advice. You don't need to fix it. Avoid prescribing action and advice before you understand. Just because something has worked for you does not mean it will work for them.”
― Hank Smith, Be Happy

“I think that history is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory, which is kind of this blend of history and a little bit of emotion…I mean, history is kind of about what you need to know…but nostalgia is what you want to hear.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“You are normal,” Drehy said. “Or rather, nobody is normal. Normal doesn’t exist. So if we slavishly try to dress ourselves to imitate it, all we’re really doing is becoming a different kind of abnormal—a miserable kind.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“As long as you gave everything you had and you didn't let it break you, it could never be considered a failure.”
― Merphy Napier, Perfection