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“This abstract performance art called Family Life is our one run at the ultimate improv. Our chance to be great for someone, to give another person enough of what they need to be happy. Ours to overlook or lose track of or bemoan, ours to recommit to, to apologize for, to try again for. Ours to”
― Kelly Corrigan, Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say

“But the larger point is that people with mental illness are missing out on a century of medical progress that has extended life expectancy for Americans from fifty-five to nearly eighty years. In other words, in terms of life expectancy, these Americans are living in the early 1920s.”
― Thomas Insel, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

“This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it merely as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable experience of confronting your limited control”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“For as many times as the horrible thing happens, a thousand times in every day the horrible thing passes us by.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays