“Society changes when a small group of people find a better way to live, and the rest of us copy them.” – David Brooks

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“Happiness is the expansion of self. Joy is the dissolving of self.” – David Brooks

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“Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.” – Richard Rohr

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“We’re now in a society where hatred is rewarded.” – Bill O’Reilly “It’s incentivized, it’s monetized.” – John Stewart

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“If we really care about connection and compassion, we have to be curious and ask. We have to be learners, not knowers. We have to believe people.” – Brené Brown

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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Lichtenstein

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“Language does not just communicate emotion, it shapes emotion.” – Brené Brown

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“States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.” – Plato

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“We have two lives. The second one begins the day we realize we only have one.” – Confucius

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“Part of the Innocence and beauty of a child is based on their natural instincts. They are totally human. The more one has to adapt to survive, the less human one becomes.” – Tim Fletcher

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“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than the love, and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.” – Eduardo Galeano

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“Those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who actually do.” – Steve Jobs

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“It’s not the honors and prizes of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.” – Mister Rogers

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“The battle for the soul of this country isn’t right or left, it’s normal versus crazy.” – Bill Maher

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“Wisdom isn’t knowing about physics or geography, wisdom is knowing about people.” – David Brooks

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“You can know what to do next only if you know what story you’re a part of.” – David Brooks

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“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story.” – Isaac Denison

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“People need recognition from others if they are to thrive.” – David Brooks

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“You may think that in everyday life, the things that you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around. What you feel alters your sight and hearing.” – Lisa Feldman Barrett

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“Remember that the person who is lower in any power structure than you are has a greater awareness of the situation than you do. A servant knows more about the master than the master knows about the servant. Someone who is being sat on knows a lot about the sitter, the way he shifts his weight and moves, whereas the sitter may not be aware that the sat on person is even there.” – David Brooks

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“Play isn’t an activity, it’s a state of mind.” – Diane Ackerman

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“The untrained eye is not enough.” – David Brooks

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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

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“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Professor Dumbledore

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“Your rights are my responsibility.” – Jordan Peterson

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“If you’re a really good negotiator, everybody walks away from the negotiation thrilled.” – Jordan Peterson

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“You learn to love yourself in the context of your relationships with others.” – Esther Perel

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“Other people let you see who you are. It’s by being with others that you get to know who you are, not just by sitting there alone saying, ‘Who am I?'” – Esther Perel

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“Respect is like air. As long as it’s present, nobody thinks about it. But if you take it away, it’s all that people can think about. The instant people perceive disrespect in a conversation, the interaction is no longer about the original purpose—it is now about defending dignity.” ― Ron McMillan

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“Cynics aren’t cynical enough about their own cynicism.” – Jordan Peterson

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“Personal transformation and social transformation happen at the same time. How we each show up in the world is how we make a world.” – David Brooks

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“It’s not naive to lead with respect. It’s not naive to lead with trust. It’s not naive to lead with curiosity. To me it’s the most practical and effective thing we can do in a time of brutal dehumanization.” – David Brooks

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“The quality of your conversation depends on the quality of the questions you ask. So we should get really good at asking great questions.” – David Brooks

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“Find a disagreement under the disagreement. There’s probably some philosophical reason we see it differently, so let’s explore what that is, it’s a more fun way to have a conversation.” – David Brooks

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“Treat attention as an on/off switch, not a dimmer. It should be 100% attention or 0% but not 60%.” – David Brooks

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“When we meet somebody, there’s a series of unconscious questions going through our minds. Am I a priority to you? Am I a person to you? Will you respect me? And the answers to those questions are communicated in the eyes before any words come out of your mouth.” – David Brooks

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“If you can’t understand other people, you’ll be miserable, and you’ll make people around you miserable.” – David Brooks

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“Forget about goals, focus on systems instead. Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.” – James Clear

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“Success is not about reaching the goal itself. It’s about who we become in the process.” – Unknown

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“It’s impossible to see anything without contrast.” – Shaun Roundy

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