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Michelle Obama
“Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands that you be bold.”
Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Sylvia Boorstein
“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]”
Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

Sylvia Boorstein
“Sadness isn't a kilesha, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness sis what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].
Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

Sylvia Boorstein
“... although I knew what issues had been most difficult for me in my life, I may not have known the depth of the feeling I had about them. ... When those stories, with their feelings, returned ... I paid attention to them. What I tell people now it, 'Try to keep your mind hospitable. This needs to visit for a while. Don't be afraid.' [p. 122]”
Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

Michelle Obama
“Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold.”
Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

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