Steffany Malarik

“In an important study done in 1979, researchers demonstrated that any form of therapy could be effective if certain criteria were met: that both the therapist and the patient were acting in good faith; that the client believed that the therapist understood the technique; and that the client liked and respected the therapist; and that the therapist had an ability to form understanding relationships. The experimenters chose English professors with this quality of human understanding and found that, on average, the English professors were able to help their patients as much as the professional therapists.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“The Hòa Hào believes that the maintenance of our spirits is very simple, and the mystery of joy is simple, too. The four characters mean “A good scent from a strange mountain.”
― Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life.” Oliver Sacks”
― Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

“It would be better, of course, to do things morally. But who these days has the ability or the time?”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror