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“Here is Epictetus, in the first century CE, lamenting the human tendency to let others control our emotions:
If your body was turned over to just anyone, you would doubtless take exception. Why aren't you ashamed that you have made your mind vulnerable to anyone who happens to criticize you, so that it automatically becomes confused and upset?
Anyone who checks their "mentions" on social media, or has ever been thrown for a loop by what somebody posted about them, will understand Epictetus's concern.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
If your body was turned over to just anyone, you would doubtless take exception. Why aren't you ashamed that you have made your mind vulnerable to anyone who happens to criticize you, so that it automatically becomes confused and upset?
Anyone who checks their "mentions" on social media, or has ever been thrown for a loop by what somebody posted about them, will understand Epictetus's concern.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“Gran used to say, Stories are a way to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
She was right. Every fairy tale teaches a lesson.
The monster is always real, just not the way you thought.
No secret stays buried forever.
The maid shalt be redeemed in the end.”
― The Mystery Guest
She was right. Every fairy tale teaches a lesson.
The monster is always real, just not the way you thought.
No secret stays buried forever.
The maid shalt be redeemed in the end.”
― The Mystery Guest
“It occurred to Cassie then that growing older wasn't about the changes she would go through physically, but instead, aging was about watching the people she loved transition from mighty to dependent.”
― Shaped by the Waves
― Shaped by the Waves
“I don't know what I'd do without this man beside me, because no matter how much brightness he brings, I'm still so afraid of the dark.”
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“He's not one to share his worries. Like Gran, he prefers to keep them contained and out of sight, hoping that if he does so, they'll simply shrivel from lack of light and cease to plague him. If only it were that simple.”
― The Mistletoe Mystery
― The Mistletoe Mystery
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