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“Asperger survived the war, but his concept of autism as a broad and inclusive spectrum (a “continuum,” his diagnostician Georg Frankl called it) that was “not at all rare” was buried with the ashes of his clinic and the unspeakable memories of that dark time, along with his case records. A very different conception of autism took its place.”
― Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

“Don’t grab hurtful comments and pull them close to you by rereading them and ruminating on them. Don’t play with them by rehearsing your badass comeback. And whatever you do, don’t pull hatefulness close to your heart.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“noticed that he had small hands and, worse again, small feet. You could barely see his shoes under the cuffs of his trousers. I hated men with small hands and feet. It made them seem very unmanly, like imps or gnomes.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“The joy, as C. S. Lewis put it, is not the satisfaction of the longing but the longing itself.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“What you’re doing seems crazy but I kind of understand why you’re doing it.”—uncovers the root of many of our financial decisions.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“doing something you love on a schedule you can’t control can feel the same as doing something you hate.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“the United States spends nearly 20 percent of its gross domestic product on healthcare—more than twice the average of developed countries.”
― Elisabeth Rosenthal, An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

“Rich people thought themselves special, but in truth, they simply possessed extra layers of insulation against the winds of misfortune.”
― Randy Susan Meyers, The Widow of Wall Street

“When we have felt disconnected, we’ve withered. We’ve become closed off, judgmental, or distant in acts of self-protection. Our”
― Marisa G. Franco, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

“We live in a society in which it is acceptable to cancel plans with friends for work, but never vice versa.”
― Marisa G. Franco, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”
― Marisa G. Franco, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

“A couple of times a year I make myself a tape to play in the car, a tape full of all the new songs I’ve loved over the previous few months, and every time I finish one I can’t believe that there’ll be another. Yet there always is, and I can’t wait for the next one; you need only a few hundred more things like that, and you’ve got a life worth living.”
― Nick Hornby, Songbook

“money isn’t the only thing that compounds. Experience compounds. The time and energy we put into our relationships and explorations of the world compounds. Education compounds, as does joy.”
― Jordan Grumet, Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor's Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life