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“Having healthy boundaries not only requires being able to say “no”, but also being willing and able to enforce that “no” when necessary.”
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“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
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“The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
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“I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.”
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“He cautioned us when we got too lawyerly and posited careful questions intended to get us to think hard about why we felt the way we felt. Slowly, over hours of talking, the knot began to loosen. Each time Barack and I left his office, we felt a bit more connected. I began to see that there were ways I could be happier and that they didn’t necessarily need to come from Barack’s quitting politics in order to take some nine-to-six foundation job. (If anything, our counseling sessions had shown me that this was an unrealistic expectation.)”
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