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Arya Harsono
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But something was shifting at the end of summer 1957. As news from other corners of America began to cover conflicts over freedom, equality, and justice for Negroes, our presence started to agitate the villagers more and more.
“On social media you can have the illusion of social contact without having to perform the gestures that actually build trust, care, and affection. On social media, stimulation replaces intimacy. There is judgment everywhere and understanding nowhere.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Not long ago, it dawned upon me that impostor syndrome is a paradox:
- others believe in you
- you don't believe in yourself
- yet you believe yourself instead of them
If you doubt yourself, shouldn't you also doubt your low opinion of yourself?”
― Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
- others believe in you
- you don't believe in yourself
- yet you believe yourself instead of them
If you doubt yourself, shouldn't you also doubt your low opinion of yourself?”
― Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
― Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
“The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“In his book Consolations, the essayist and poet David Whyte observed that the ultimate touchstone of friendship “is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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