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“European democracies collapsed into right-wing authoritarianism and fascism in the 1920s and ’30s. The communist Soviet Union”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“regret can go one of two ways: it can either shackle you to the past or serve as an engine for change.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people’s feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Fascists despised the small truths of daily existence”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century