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“For example, Dr. Nicole Brown, in a separate body of research, found that childhood trauma tripled the development of ADHD symptoms. A large study by the British Office of National Statistics found that if there’s a financial crisis in the family, a child’s chances of being diagnosed with attention problems go up 50 percent. If there’s a serious illness in the family, it goes up 75 percent.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

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“Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: acceptance, memories, past, perspective, self-preservation, struggles, understanding

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“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”
― Zig Ziglar

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“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

tags: classrooms, libraries

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“He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of the life we had been meant to lead all along.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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