Truth
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Truth
Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.
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If we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
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People listen better if they feel that you have understood them. They tend to think that those who understand them are intelligent and sympathetic people whose own opinions may be worth listening to. So if you want the other side to appreciate your interests, begin by demonstrating that you appreciate theirs.
William Ury • Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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Your capacity for sensitivity and commitment is the best thing about you.
- Ava
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Limits may slow us down long enough to breathe in what we already have, but they do not reduce meaning. In some cases, they may generate more. We’re not designed to be at capacity all the time, endlessly stimulated by activities, saturated in tasks to tick off... To remind ourselves of our limits is a kindness.
Donald Winnicott • Article
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“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.” — Daniel Kahneman
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For fear of our democracy, I dissent.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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