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“When you’re judging, you’re not listening. And if you’re not listening, you’re missing out on one of the best ways to stimulate your smart vagus pathway and turn down the volume of your stress-response system. But if you’re not judging, you can listen more and feel calmer, and this, in turn, will make interacting with others much easier and judging others less necessary.”
― Amy Banks, Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis