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“To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen.”
― Miri Yū , Tokyo Ueno Station

“That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Democracy can live with dissent, as long as there is respect on both sides. But respect demands some understanding.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“Encourage them to draw how they feel or say how they feel and then accept those feelings.”
― Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: