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Anne Lamott
“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”
Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Arakida Moritake
“A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.”
Arakida Moritake, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology

Malcolm Gladwell
“Pronin had them fill in the blank spaces: Emily Pronin et al., “You Don’t Know Me, But I Know You: The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 81, no. 4 (2001): 639–56, APA PsychNET. I quoted part of Pronin’s conclusion. But the whole paragraph is worth considering: The conviction that we know others better than they know us—and that we may have insights about them they lack (but not vice versa)—leads us to talk when we would do well to listen and to be less patient than we ought to be when others express the conviction that they are the ones who are being misunderstood or judged unfairly. The same convictions can make us reluctant to take advice from others who cannot know our private thoughts, feelings, interpretations of events, or motives, but all too willing to give advice to others based on our views of their past behavior, without adequate attention to their thoughts, feelings, interpretations, and motives. Indeed, the biases documented here may create a barrier to the type of exchanges of information, and especially to the type of careful and respectful listening, that can go a long way to attenuating the feelings of frustration and resentment that accompany interpersonal and intergroup conflict.”
Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

“A little fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the roses.”
Chinese Proverb

W.B. Yeats
“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
William Butler Yeats

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