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“Encourage them to draw how they feel or say how they feel and then accept those feelings.”
― Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read:

“We want our children to act with consideration and empathy toward others rather than being motivated only by the narrower ideas of punishment and material reward.”
― Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read:

“If being authoritarian is your go-to way of being with your children, you are also risking their future relationship with authority. It may block them from being able to cooperate with authority or being able to be a leader themselves, or you may breed a dictator.”
― Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read:

“A reason war is when you play fact tennis and pretend that feelings don’t play into a decision at all, then it escalates to a war or standoff.”
― Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read:

“I guess I don’t really understand you yet,” I said. “I’m not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you—better than anyone else in the world ever can.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Euripides,” she said “Electra. ‘No god hearkens to my helpless cry.’ You know—the class just ended.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Letters are just pieces of paper,” I said. “Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Isn’t it nice how we actually enjoy talking to each other now?” I said to her once on a trip home from college, after the bulk of the damage done in my teenage years had been allayed. “It is,” she said. “You know what I realized? I’ve just never met someone like you.” I’ve just never met someone like you, as if I were a stranger from another town or an eccentric guest accompanying a mutual friend to a dinner party.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Grief, like depression, made it hard to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Democracy can live with dissent, as long as there is respect on both sides. But respect demands some understanding.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“A report by the Center for American Entrepreneurship found that, in 2017, out of the largest five hundred US companies by revenue (the Fortune 500 list), 43 percent were founded or co-founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“Because, at the heart of it, creativity is about how expressing ourselves affects other people. We want to be understood, we want to share who we are.”
― Felicia Day, Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity

“Maybe, like you, I was one of those people who loves the world most when I’m rock-bottom in my fast car going nowhere.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“I never carried any photos with me, but I was always surrounded by people, places, and times gone by. And as I retreated into the future, the only thing I could ever see was the past.”
― Miri Yū, Tokyo Ueno Station

“Then you shall judge yourself,’ answered the king. ‘That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen.”
― Miri Yū , Tokyo Ueno Station

“The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that’s the hardest phase,” he says.”
― Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

“On reflection, this makes sense. If you have many years’ experience, then you’ve had time to get better at what you do and develop a feeling of efficacy. It also gives you time to develop strong relationships with your coworkers and to see many examples of your work benefiting others.”
― Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

“In other words, I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus toward becoming so good they can’t ignore you. That is, regardless of what you do for a living, approach your work like a true performer.”
― Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

“I was not afraid of ghosts. Nor was I afraid of death or dying. I was afraid of living this life not knowing when it might end.”
― Miri Yū, Tokyo Ueno Station

“Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment.”
― Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

“The universal truth behind my specific issues is that most of us invest a lot of energy, one way or another, in trying to avoid fully experiencing the reality in which we find ourselves.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals