“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
–Dorothy Canfield Fisher

CLICK HER TO READ:  If Only – Weslake Magazine 3-4:2012

“You never know what someone has been through,
what someone has learned,
and/or how their path has been altered in a moment.
Don’t walk away in this new moment of light,
for it is only when shared with others that the light of another may shine.”

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the question now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

-Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Stephen Mitchell

This is a video of Brene Brown’s marvelous TED talk, The Power of Vulnerability.  This should be required viewing for the entire human race.