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Wellness
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the science showed that people in midlife were carrying around with them, all the time, a feeling that was, statistically speaking, the equivalent of someone close to them having recently died.
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
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“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”
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“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work-- and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
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