Tiny Beautiful Things

In this sense, she offers what we wish every mother would:

enough compassion to make us feel safe within our broken need, and enough wisdom to hold on to hope.

afraid of saying it out loud, as my experience shows that word “love” comes loaded with promises and commitments that are highly fragile and easily broken

word fears is written at the top

The way you test yourself could be a series of choices you make right where you are.

What are the ways you can create your own rite of passage?

trusted myself, I forgave myself, I decided to test myself—

I had to do something hard so I could know my strength

t expands our perception of our own courage, strength, and endurance. It forges us out of who we were before into the person we will become

Difficulty, solitude, and risk are the three things that all rites of passage have in common. It’s because putting ourselves in situations where we must do hard things that scare us without anyone there to intervene pushes us beyond what we previously thought ourselves capable of