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guilt is feeling bad about something you’ve done, while shame is feeling bad about who you are.

ADHD Is Awesome

Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness, and Edward Hallowell

If you’re feeling not just frustrated and challenged, but helpless, isolated, and trapped, like you want to hide in a cave, or like you’d rather put your hand in a toilet full of tadpoles than spend one more day doing the thing, you should definitely quit whatever it is.

Burnout

Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski

The part you must jettison is not only the best-written part; it is also, oddly, that part which was to have been the very point. It is the original key passage, the passage on which the rest was to hang, and from which you yourself drew the courage to begin.

The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

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