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The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown

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I think we’ve lost touch with the idea that speaking honestly and openly about who we are, about what we’re feeling, and about our experiences (good and bad) is the definition of courage.

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“True laughter is not the use of humor as self-deprecation or deflection; it’s not the kind of painful laughter we sometimes hide behind. Knowing laughter embodies the relief and connection we experience when we realize the power of sharing our stories—we’re not laughing at each other but with each other.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

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“George Bernard Shaw got it right: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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“The thing we need most is relationships. The thing we seem to suck at most is relationships.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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“Postal clerks are like priests, doctors, and lawyers. They feel ethically bound to protect privileged information, and they respect their clients’ privacy.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

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“We project our individual mental experience into the world, and thereby mistake our mental experience to be the physical world, oblivious to the shaping of perception by our sensory systems, personal histories, goals, and expectations,” Proffitt and co-author Drake Baer later wrote in their book Perception.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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