Kathryn Stanley

Getting one extra hour of sleep a night is better for our happiness than a $60,000 raise

There’s something easier to us about rescuing and covering for someone than there is in asking for what we want or challenging how others treat us.

What we really want is to see our forgiveness wish shredded and granted.

We might be making mistakes, but we’ve learned to coax ourselves into believing it’s right and okay to avoid dealing with them.

There is a beautiful theory that every choice produces an explosion of paths that we could go down next, and with each choice that follows, the paths we didn’t take die off and burn away while another set of paths break open in front of us like fireworks.

What’s so jarring about these places is not that they’ve changed, but rather that they’ve stayed the same, lovely and unbroken. What’s so jarring is that we’ve changed, that we’ve become hardened and scared and cold.

INFJs are perfectionists who struggle with failure.

The beauty of yoga – and the beauty of life – is in the “practice,” not the product.

Disoriented, confused, we build our own narrative to fill in the missing pieces, to create our own ending, to get the closure we need.

You attack issues head on, because this process produces the fastest, most efficient kind of growth and learning.

Here’s what I believe to be true: to be kind and honest is to admit a sort of defeat, to accept a kind of powerlessness.

Here’s the cold hard truth: If you feel that you can’t trust others, what you really feel is that you can’t trust yourself.