“Of everything you could be and everything you do, the greatest thing of all, Henri, is simply to be you.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“Is your job title your identity? When you introduce yourself, do you also include what you do for a living? If so, you may be meeting people who want to know what you do, because they want to know what you can do for them.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“The awful reality of life is that kids can sometimes be ruthless toward one another. Kidding, teasing, taunting, and mocking with sadistic sarcasm, they have exterminated innumerable self-esteems. Some are more adept at Humiliation 101 than they are at math or science. It's a choice between homework and hassling a weaker member of the human race. And the latter often wins out. No wonder. It's much more fun to obliterate a person's already fragile self-image than it is to work fractions for some teacher who attended school with your grandmother. It's an art form, actually, with some kids as budding Rembrandts. Whether vocal or unspoken, direct or passive, it's always destructive. Like an arrow, the rejection a young person feels plunges deep within, causing a wound that can take decades to heal.”
“I wouldn't expect a naysayer to understand. But trust me, everything falls into place exactly as it should.”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“If you're ever feeling worried that there is something wrong with you, remember Henri the snorting Frenchie and know that you are lovable too.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“Henri was distraught, and his heart felt so sad.
If nobody liked him, did it mean he was bad?
He stared at his reflection.
"I'm a Pig Dog!" he exclaimed.
He should have known sooner.
He felt so ashamed.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“We are all born so beautiful; the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.”
Source: Milk and honey
“With the body judged externally, dismay will be rife. Success means looking younger every year, as the women in the gym seem to. Success means regulating the body: controlling hungers, desires, ageing and emissions. Success means seeing the body as a lifelong work. Success means anticipating faults - physical, medical, and aesthetic - and correcting them. But when and if the ordinary processes of the body cannot be sufficiently restraint, which of course they can't, the body becomes a source of consternation as well as failure.”
Source: Bodies
“If nobody liked him, did that mean he was bad?”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“In the depths of my diminished self-esteem, I discovered an insatiable hunger for validation and attention; the emptier I felt within, the greater my desperation to be filled.”
Source: The Unapologetical Abyss