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Brené Brown
“If we believe empathy is finite, like pizza, and practicing empathy with someone leaves fewer slices for others, then perhaps comparing levels of suffering would be necessary. Luckily, however, empathy is infinite and renewable. The more you give, the more we all have. That means all pain can be met with empathy—there’s no reason to rank and ration.”
Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Valeria Luiselli
“Rapes: eighty percent of the women and girls who cross Mexico to get to the U.S. border are raped on the way. The situation is so common that most of them take contraceptive precautions as they begin the journey north.”
Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

Malcolm Gladwell
“A few years later, she deliberately drove her car into a river—then, in typical fashion, wrote a poem about it: And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three.”
Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

Malcolm Gladwell
“And of every occupational category, poets have far and away the highest suicide rates—as much as five times higher than the general population. Something about writing poetry appears either to attract the wounded or to open new wounds—and few have so perfectly embodied that image of the doomed genius as Sylvia Plath.1”
Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

Brené Brown
“As long as I’ve studied vulnerability (which dates back to my dissertation research in 1998), I will always think that the very best example of vulnerability is saying “I love you” first. Talk about taking off the armor! Just thinking about that moment takes my breath away. Like many of you, I’ve taken that risk and had the indescribable experience of hearing “Oh, my God! I love you too!” And I’ve been on the shitty end of “Aww, thank you! But I think we’re on different pages.”
Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

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