Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series
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Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series
She hoped they were, because sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties if you know that no one else is happy,
Over time she realized that deep down almost everyone asks themselves the same sort of questions: Am I good? Do I make anyone proud? Am I useful to society? Am I good at my job? Generous and considerate? A decent shag? Does anyone want me to be their friend? Have I been a good parent? Am I a good person? People
‘Boats that stay in the harbour are safe, sweetheart, but that’s not what boats were built for.’
The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.’
They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of
... See moreYour generation don’t want to study a subject, you just want to study yourselves.’
can’t change the world, and a lot of the time we can’t even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to … be enough. So we can live with our failures without
... See moreHe wasn’t at all difficult to replace, so he went home and the business carried on existing.
All winter had to do was roll in with a bit of freezing weather and take all the credit, like a man who’s spent twenty minutes next to a barbecue but has never served a full meal in his life.