John Fishman

“The truth is kaleidoscopic, it has many mirrors, and it can be viewed from a variety of angles.”
― Colum McCann, American Mother

“Getting lost, I want to suggest, is our best defence against being lost ; and partly because it makes us feel that we have, as it were, taken the problem into our own hands, turned, as psychoanalysts say, passive into active.”
― Adam Phillips, On Balance

“Deep listening means leaving where our mind is and starting the conversation where their mind is. It means listening from within their frame of reference, not just ours.”
― William Ury, Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict

“Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts