Daniela Terra

I learned a lot about myself cohabiting with some of them, and still today nothing makes me more mad than not being able to choose or reject companions, the freedom to choose one’s company as the great human right, the pickiness with which to choose whom you love as your last freedom, I felt it even with my classmates when I was in school, that the... See more

Unless something is truly dangerous or violent, I’ll rationalise it away, I’ll think I can make anything work

It remains my conviction that only people who understand violence can build safe places,

The creation of a new reality is centered on three tenets: narrative, curation, and repetition.

A story is how we navigate the ambiguity of our environment, how we make sense of the world. It’s the promised land, a vision worth aspiring to, or a reading of the world worth attaching to. A story either inspires us to make a future destination our hom... See more

Garmezy, and about the strategies of resilient children, the learning from adversity, the seeking out mentors to replace absentee parents, I’d done all of that, I would read about it and cry. When I had PTSD, I had no concept of the future. During the first year, I couldn’t even visualise the next day, it was very limiting, then it gradually expand... See more

Stamina, especially when combined with enjoyment and a choice of goal, trumps most other strengths

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

“what you want is what you do”, when you don’t know what you want, just watch what you do, on a Sunday or after hours, what you read, whom you call, there’s your answer.