When your sense of worth depends on external validation, your emotions become controlled by forces outside yourself.
Self mastery begins when you realize that not everyone needs to understand you, agree with you, or approve of your choices.
Every day I awake to discover another thing Trump and his administration is doing to destroy our democracy. Seriously, it will take two terms for the next president to unravel all the things this evil man has done.
I guess I find it kind of interesting just for how it sets up a universe centred on a dynamic/type of relationship & then immediately problematizes it. i.e.
I thank God for giving me the strength to finish, and I am grateful to the University of Maine for providing an education that shaped me into a better social worker and educator.
In fury, he yanks the fridge from the wall and tosses it out of the window, where a man was walking home from work.
Up the heavens, Saint Peter was stationed at the gates of Heaven. He sees a man approach and he checks his clipboard.