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Reactive people are also affected by their social environment, by the “social weather.” When people treat them well, they feel well; when people don’t, they become defensive or protective. Reactive people build their emotional lives around ...more
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“In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.”
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

Anne Tyler
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
Anne Tyler

J.R.R. Tolkien
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

L. Frank Baum
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

Ved Mehta
“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
Ved Mehta, All for Love

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