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“If you playfully tease someone, for instance, your facial expression and the sound of your voice may be the only way listeners can tell that you don’t intend to be antagonistic. This function is so important that we have had to invent emojis, the imitation facial expressions people put in text messages, to sometimes show what we mean.”
― Rowland S. Miller, Intimate Relationships

“In his book How to Make Yourself Miserable, Dan Greenburg demonstrates through humor the insidious power that comparative thinking can exert over us. He suggests that if readers have a sincere desire to make life miserable for themselves, they might learn to compare themselves to other people.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

“There’s a concept in psychology called ‘post-traumatic growth’ (see also, chapter 9). Any time we go through something very difficult in life, there’s no doubt that our moods can take a real bruising and we can feel distressed. But when we manage to endure it, we can also grow.”
― Olivia Remes, The Instant Mood Fix: Emergency Remedies to Beat Anxiety, Panic or Stress

“We often predict that we’ll feel stronger negative emotions to hardship than we actually do.”
― Olivia Remes, The Instant Mood Fix: Emergency Remedies to Beat Anxiety, Panic or Stress