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He had a deep voice, and even; well-tempered, I would say, which meant he knew how to use it, and he had that good leader’s trick of making every man feel singled out for welcome.
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey
Rumination combined with pessimistic explanatory style is the recipe for severe depression. This ends the bad news. The good news is that both pessimistic explanatory style and rumination can be changed, and changed permanently.
Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
Think of this: The reason why the child is able to preserve its innocence and live like the rest of creation in the bliss of the kingdom is that it has not been sucked into what we call “the world”—that region of darkness inhabited by grownups whose lives are spent not in living but in courting applause and admiration, not in blissfully being themselves but in neurotically comparing, competing, and striving for those empty things called success and fame—even if they can be attained only at the expense of defeating, humiliating, or destroying their neighbors.
Stop Fixing Yourself
Anthony de Mello
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