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[93] "Not all pain is visible. But not all love is visible either, and that doesn't make it any less real. We believe the pain because we feel it, but we often forget how much we're loved because it doesn't always present itself in ways that make you physically gasp.

It's real though. And you're soaking in it."

[61] "Smile at everyone that you see...
...It breeds happiness and makes your enemies paranoid."
[62] "Perhaps the most selfless thing you can do today is to be kind to yourself."

[49] "I'm not always good at everything. But I am very good at being me."
[50] "There are worlds inside of you. Wonderful and terrible and brilliant worlds."

[38] SHOW ME WHAT MAKES YOU A MISFIT AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT MAKES YOU NECESSARY.

[30] Everyone has secrets. A past. A bad choice. Regrets. Guilt. Doubts we don't admit out loud. The things we hide that make us who we are. Sometimes they turn us cold. Sometimes they make us brittle. But almost always they come with the capacity to give us compassion and kindness.
...you are human and perfectly flawed and so much more than just the sum of your parts.

[28] Sometimes self-care and restraint and giving yourself the ability to say "no" is the only way to keep yourself strong enough (and you enough) in order to keep giving, and to feel happy in giving rather than feeling exhausted and taken advantage of."

[11] "Coming from an unsuccessful background, I had developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true. They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, within reason, I could learn as well."

[11] Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

[44 continued] …vacation, plus the usual cast of feudists, fatheads, fools, fanatics, hotshots, incompetents, tattletales, suck-ups, backstabbers...and a few dedicated people who do all the real work.

[44] "Democracies are messy." Jake remarked when the President paused for air."
"Aren't they ever!" The President made a chopping gesture. "The hell of it is that bureaucracies are what governments have to work with to protect human lives. Every bureaucracy has its rules and regulations, rivers of forms and reports and memos and correspondence. in- and out-baskets, federal holidays, people sick or on...