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“That's the thing about life: Just because we don't get the answers we're hoping for doesn't mean they aren't answers nonetheless.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“My job didn't involve working directly with patients, but I thought about them a lot. I saw them as victims of our fucked-up, materialistic, impersonal, hectic, over-mechanized, dehumanizing society. There wasn't much mystery about why these people were so screwed up. The mystery was why everyone else wasn't nuts too. But somehow I never figured it could ever happen to me, that I could some day be shuffling around in slippers and pajamas, bumming cigarettes and mumbling to myself. There were too many people who loved me, who would never commit me to an institution, whose love would keep me from getting that spaced out.”
― Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

“Our lives begin in the everyday and stay in the everyday. Only in the everyday can we begin to create truly great worlds.”
― Michael Puett, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life

“You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.”
― Tene Edwards