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“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness -- the feeling that someone is trying to think about us -- something we want more than praise?”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. But if we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us- we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don't understand.”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“There cannot be change without loss”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to find his parents during the night, but because he fears his parents will forget him - lose him - in the dark.”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“Physical manifestations of unhappiness are something we all experience; it's not a personality flaw or a sign of weakness, it's a part of life.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol