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“No matter how painful and overwhelming our emotions can sometimes be, it is essential to remember that we evolved our capacity to experience them for a reason: They help us navigate the world, which is why all emotions are functional, even the ones we don’t like.”
― Ethan Kross, Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You

“A community is a group of people with a common project.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“Emotions are responses to experiences you have in the world, or that you imagine happening, that are meaningful to you; they’re instruments to help you respond to the situation.”
― Ethan Kross, Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You

“Disrupting a cascade of negative emotions by distracting is only one way you can use your cognitive control system.”
― Ethan Kross, Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You