Hamed

“Sabeth listened when I told her about my experiences, but as one listens to an old man; without interrupting, politely, without believing, without getting excited.”
― Max Frisch

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them – at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence. 

People, including yourself, will start to assume that you are competent and able (or at least they will not immediately conclude the reverse).

Doing so, will not genuinely increase the probability that good things will happen to you – it will also make those good things feel better they do happen.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley