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Here to Make Friends: How to Make Friends as an Adult: Advice to Help You Expand Your Social Circle, Nurture Meaningful Relationships, and Build a Healthier, Happier Social Life

by Hope Kelaher

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Jul 15, 2026 04:28PM

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The Mad Wife

by Meagan Church (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 15, 2026 04:27PM

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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

by Vanessa Van Edwards (Goodreads Author)

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“As we have said from the beginning, we think people are built to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their own pain. In reality, we are actually built to overcome our own pleasure and increase our own pain in the service of following society’s norms.”
― Matthew D. Lieberman, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

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“The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.”
― Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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“words are the medium through which belief systems are manufactured, nurtured, and reinforced, their fanaticism fundamentally could not exist without them.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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“You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don’t have enough doubts about them.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

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“Sometimes one forgives in order to remain in a relationship with someone she cares about, even if the person has caused her pain and anguish. It's not a blanket pardon; it's the trade-off one is willing to make when preserving the relationship is more important than correcting the injustice.”
― Carolyn Jessop, Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons

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