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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

by Oliver Burkeman

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The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

by Katherine Morgan Schafler

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Maddy’s Quotes

“Realize that you can’t let the feelings of others make you live less.”
― Arden Rose, Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together

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“History does not repeat, but it does instruct.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“The release and joy that come from luxury are only felt when you earned it.”
― Arden Rose, Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together

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“All the romantic nonsense about depression somehow making one into a creature of unique sensibilities is easy to agree with when I feel good. Then I'm sharper, superior for having weathered something terribly difficult, or just plain pleased to having been gotten away with something once again - like the snow day after the night's homework I did not do. All of it stands up to the light, but it's bullshit in the shadows. I do not care about unique sensibilities. All I care about is surviving. My goal in life is to get through the days.”
― Martha Manning, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

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