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Look for the Best in Everybody
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
“Part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don’t want, don’t need, and don’t have. I mean, Jimmy, man, you are so not alone here.
Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel
He has breakfast, goes to work, comes home, has dinner, plays with the children, reads a novel. He lives. He does not require the moment to be different in order to be happy. He is happy.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Find out how you are fucked up. “They fuck you up your mom and dad, they don’t mean to but they do…” You inherited all sorts of bullshit that you don’t even know.
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‘Never underestimate the big importance of small things,’ Mrs Elm said. ‘You must always remember that.’
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: A Novel
Inside the rule-bound, precise, formal person, a playful, silly self is hoping for release. Inside the important person admired for their status is a child who wants to be liked for themselves.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The good child has been deprived of one of the central ingredients of a properly privileged upbringing: the experience of other people witnessing and surviving their mischief.