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“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”

— Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“The easiest way to avoid being overwhelmed is to create positive constraints: put up walls that dramatically restrict whatever it is that you’re trying to do.”

— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

“A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.”

— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

“The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.”

— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain— and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do.”

— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”

— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.”

— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“I’m convinced of two fundamental truths about human beings. The first is that we all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and strength. This is a truth that all the world’s philosophies and religions— whether Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or Buddhism— acknowledge in one form or anothe…”

— Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh. So why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things our eulogy will…”

— Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“I was a working woman. I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.”

— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“Life is long, people change, I would never be foolish enough to think otherwise. But no matter what, nothing can ever be as it was. Everything has changed in a way that sounds trite and borderline offensive when recounted over coffee. I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, u…”

— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from.”

— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”

— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.”

— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl

“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren…”

— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“We have to strive to do extraordinary work, we have to strive to find extraordinary love.”

— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

“You yourself are made up of atoms that rained down on to Earth billions of years ago. So when you meet someone and you swear that you have known them before, that you have felt them before, know that there is no coincidence in that, finally your cells are reunited, and at last, it feels like you are…”

— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

“You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is no…”

— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete