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Heidi Priebe

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2,218 quotes curated by Heidi Priebe:

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Tagged: feminism, strength, Women, Speaking Up
“I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.”
— Emma Watson, Interview With Marie Claire
Tagged: feminism, Independence, Perseverence, Going For It
“For a really long time that's all I had. Little moments with a girl who saw me as a friend. And a lot of people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl who I worked with, but I think, even then I knew, I was waiting for my wife.”
— Jim Halpert, The Office
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, Marriage, The Office, Jim And Pam, crushes, Waiting
“Jim: Four years ago, I was just a guy who had a crush on a girl who had a boyfriend. And I had to do the hardest thing I ever had to do, which was just to wait. Don't get me wrong—I flirted with her. Pam, I can now admit in front of friends and family that I do know how to make a photocopy. I didn't need your help that many times. And do you remember how long it took you to teach me to drive stick?

Pam: Like a year.

Jim: I've been driving stick since high school.”
— Jim Halpert And Pam Beasley, The Office
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Marriage, Dating, crushes, Jim And Pam, The Office
“We need more representation of boring bisexual people so boring people like me will have someone to look up to.”
— Mara Wilson, Twitter
Tagged: Bisexuality, Representation, Coming out, Queer, Coming Out Day
“If you can't come out on coming out day, do  not feel badly. I think it makes things better (in the long run) but it's tough!”
— Gaby Dunn, Twitter
Tagged: Coming out, Bisexuality, sexuality, gay, Lesbian, Queer, Coming Out Day
“I was 20 years old. Attending a catholic college where I was playing basketball for, no joke, the Lady Monks. As often as she could my girlfriend would drive three hours to pick me up and drive me back to her house for the weekend. I was so in love and so desperate to see her, but as soon as I’d get in her car I’d fall asleep and sleep the entire way there. It was the only time I ever rested...when she was beside me. The rest of my life was just holding on, or holding out for the courage to lose what I was certain I’d lose if anyone figured out the truth of my heart. The first time I came out I came out to my roommate in my catholic dorm. I’d just come from a science class that was taught by a nun who, again..no joke, didn’t believe in dinosaurs. We were sitting on my bed. I didn’t say the words ‘gay’ or ‘queer.’ I looked at my friend and said ‘I gotta tell you something. I finally understand god…’ It was the scariest conversation of my life. The school was so conservative. There wasn’t a single person who was out, or from what I could tell then, even queer and in the closet. And it was a time when I was certain nothing in the world would ever change. Now all these years later, it’s National Coming Out Day, and I’m sitting here, at my desk, reading an email I got a few weeks ago from my catholic college asking me to come and perform. I’ve read it maybe 20 times since I got it, and have cried almost every time. Not everything changes. But today I am so grateful for what does.”
— Andrea Gibson, Facebook
Tagged: Coming out, gay, Queer, Lesbian, Religion, God, Coming Out Day, Love, Courage
“We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Truth, Honesty, Openness, Courage, vulnerability, Shame
“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Joy, Extraordinary, Goals, Life, Happiness
“The most transformative and resilient leaders that I’ve worked with over the course of my career have three things in common: First, they recognize the central role that relationships and story play in culture and strategy, and they stay curious about their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Second, they understand and stay curious about how emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are connected in the people they lead, and how those factors affect relationships and perception. And, third, they have the ability and willingness to lean in to discomfort and vulnerability.”
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
Tagged: Discomfort, Leadership, strength, vulnerability, Courage