Quotes about "Diversity & Inclusion"

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again. ”

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get. ”

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' ”

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work. ”

Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different. ”

I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment. ”

What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship. ”

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world. ”

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. ”

I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence. ”