“Nobody Wants To Hear This, But Sometimes The Person You Want The Most Is The Person You’re Best

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The “very tired mother of 6” stance

by Marat Akhmetvaleev

“What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?”

— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.”

— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Know that there are vulgar people everywhere… They speak like fools and impudently criticize others. Great disciples of ignorance, godfathers of idiocy, avid for degrading gossip. Pay no attention to what they say, and less to what they feel.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Ever since the first day I’d seen him, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.”

— Michelle Madow