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The Company of Strangers

by Robert Wilson (Goodreads Author)

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“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety

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“Qui plus sait, plus se tait”
― Voltaire, Candide

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“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
― Thomas Merton

tags: courage, faith, hope, possibility

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