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“Nothing is casual. Everything requires work, research, and thought. Agonize. Take it seriously. Don’t leave it up to someone else, and don’t phone it in. There is no such thing as a shortcut if you are going to turn in good work. If I ever enjoy the process, I know I have somehow produced something worthless.”
― Howard Stern, Howard Stern Comes Again

“Although well-intentioned, not seeing color is ultimately a reflection of our personal challenges around navigating difference.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“And so we create a story—a “drama about me”—that may gradually wander far away from the here and now and far away from the way things actually are. Once the script we have concocted for ourselves has been set in the mind, we may unwittingly rely on it as a reference point for all present and future judgments—without ever checking back with the here and now. Without knowing it, our thoughts become words carved in stone rather than words written on water.”
― J. Mark G. Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness