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“You cannot disregard sadness without also making yourself immune to happiness. This is to say, it’s healthier to experience everything, the good and the bad.”

“If you don’t acknowledge the magnitude of the poor choices you’ve made, you’re bound to justify doing them again”

“Defensiveness never precedes growth, it stunts it.”

The path to a greater life is not “suffering until you achieve something” but letting bits and pieces of joy and gratitude and meaning and purpose gradually build, bit by bit.