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“Good, solid relationships are built in vulnerable times, so Eights need to work on that confusion about weakness and vulnerability by staying connected to others when they’re down or when things don’t line up, and then sharing with others what means the most, what frightens them the most, and what they consider most important.”
― Suzanne Stabile, The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships

“You could learn the piano in this house. And what if you did? And what if that led to you playing concerts all over the world? Then wouldn’t this house become big as the world? Sometimes, when people are all grown up, they come by to visit the house they grew up in. You know why? Because their childhood took place in that house. And your childhood is taking place in this house. And childhood has a habit of playing a major role in the rest of your life. Doesn’t that make this house bigger? Doesn’t something so important give this house more room?”
― Josh Malerman, Incidents Around the House

“Sadness is the gap between the seen and unseen—between what we know could be, what should be, and what actually is. This is why so many visionaries have such big sadness: They ache at the way things are because they have such a strong, haunting vision of the way it could be.”
― Glennon Doyle, We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions

“If you hide everything behind the couch and then scream the name of your family member while you pull the gift out and launch it at them, it’s just as much of a surprise (possibly more if they’re not paying attention). It’s also ecologically friendly. You are saving paper—shiny, petroleum-based paper. So maybe I’m not only lazy. I’m carbon neutral. And lightly concussed from a box set of Steely Dan.”
― Jenny Lawson, I Choose Darkness