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Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and wrote that everything can be taken from a person but one thing — the freedom to choose one’s attitude. I’m 69 and the hardest thing I’ve ever admitted is that I’ve had that freedom my whole life and almost never used it

Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and wrote that everything can be taken from a person but one thing — the freedom to choose one’s attitude. I’m 69 and the hardest thing I’ve ever admitted is that I’ve had that freedom my whole life and almost never used it

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I’m 73 and I slept badly for a decade before I understood that the problem wasn’t my sleep — it was everything I was bringing to the bed with me, the unresolved conversations, the accumulated worries I’d been too busy to feel during the day, the low-grade anxiety about everything and nothing that only found its full voice in the dark, and the sleep got better when I stopped treating it as a separate problem and started treating it as information

I’m 73 and I slept badly for a decade before I understood that the problem wasn’t my sleep — it was everything I was bringing to the bed with me, the unresolved conversations, the accumulated worries I’d been too busy to feel during the day, the low-grade anxiety about everything and nothing that only found its full voice in the dark, and the sleep got better when I stopped treating it as a separate problem and started treating it as information

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I’m 73 and my daughter said something last month that broke me: “Mom, you never told us what you actually wanted, we just assumed you were happy” — and I realized I’d been so good at enduring that I’d made my own suffering invisible

I’m 73 and my daughter said something last month that broke me: “Mom, you never told us what you actually wanted, we just assumed you were happy” — and I realized I’d been so good at enduring that I’d made my own suffering invisible

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Chinese proverb: A book holds a house of gold — psychology says truly good women approach people the same way they approach books, with curiosity rather than judgment, and these 8 qualities explain why their goodness feels expansive rather than conditional

Chinese proverb: A book holds a house of gold — psychology says truly good women approach people the same way they approach books, with curiosity rather than judgment, and these 8 qualities explain why their goodness feels expansive rather than conditional

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The Dalai Lama said that Western culture’s obsession with external success would create the loneliest generation in history — and I’m a boomer sitting in a paid-off house with a full pension realizing he was talking about me

The Dalai Lama said that Western culture’s obsession with external success would create the loneliest generation in history — and I’m a boomer sitting in a paid-off house with a full pension realizing he was talking about me

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Psychology says people with deeply compassionate souls aren’t just kind — they possess a specific neurological wiring that allows them to literally feel other people’s pain, and that gift often becomes their greatest burden

Psychology says people with deeply compassionate souls aren’t just kind — they possess a specific neurological wiring that allows them to literally feel other people’s pain, and that gift often becomes their greatest burden

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