Bewilderment
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Watching medicine fail my child, I developed a crackpot theory: Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the
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“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.”
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
“Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?
A: You already are an animal.”
― Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
A: You already are an animal.”
― Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Educated
― Educated
“The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.”
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
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