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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
“People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn’t the absence of feelings; it’s a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.” ~Lori Gottlieb
Run Towards the Danger
“Please don't ever apologize for having a reasonable response to something difficult.” ~ Sarah Polley
Sacred Marriage
“If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there’s no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you’d never have to face otherwise.” ~Gary L. Thomas
Know What You’re FOR
“If a business was a person, many businesses would be considered narcissists. And narcissism is bad for business.” ~Jeff Henderson
Atlas of the Heart
“Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. We have to ask questions, admit to not knowing, risk being told that we shouldn't be asking, and, sometimes, make discoveries that lead to discomfort.” ~Brené Brown
Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro
“I needed not to feel less than others. I needed not to beat myself up with food. I need to nourish my soul, my body, my mind. Not with juice detoxes but with tasty raspberries. Walks filled with laughter. Lovemaking with my husband. Love in general.” ~Kara Richardson Whitely
The Happiness Project
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.” ~Gretchen Rubin
Educated
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell” ~Tara Westover
Where the Crawdads Sing
“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.” ~Delia Owens
Play
“Stepping out of a normal routine, finding novelty, being open to serendipity, enjoying the unexpected, embracing a little risk, and finding pleasure in the heightened vividness of life. These are all qualities of a state of play.” ~Stuart Brown
Atomic Habits
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.” ~James Clear
12 Rules for Life
“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.” ~Jordan B. Peterson
9 Things You Simply Must Do
“Avoidance always prolongs pain, in the end.” ~Henry Cloud
Necessary Endings
“Failing well means ending something that is not working and choosing to do something else better.” ~Dr Henry Cloud
The Infinite Game
“To ask, “What’s best for me” is finite thinking. To ask, “What’s best for us” is infinite thinking.” ~Simon Sinek
Permission to Feel
“Emotion regulation is not about not feeling. Neither is it exerting tight control over what we feel. And it’s not about banishing negative emotions and feeling only positive ones. Rather, emotion regulation starts with giving ourselves and others the permission to own our feelings—all of them.” ~ Marc Brackett
More Myself
“And when I reveal my true heart, not everyone is going to approve. What I know now is that I don’t need them to.” ~Alicia Keys