“We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail . . . we are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muted, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.”
—Julia Cameron
