“Mental illnesses are, in fact, major killers, not by homicide but by suicide. There are over 47,000 suicide deaths in the U.S. each year, the equivalent of a mass shooting of 129 people each day, every day. That is a suicide every 11 minutes.”
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
“Thank you for the food before us, the people around us, and the love between us.”
― Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
― Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. It was the right tack for Patton and his GIs. But did that make it right for a bunch of Buttfaces? I worried.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“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”
― Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
― Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
“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”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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