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Don was utterly adorable. This was a well-needed read: fun, witty, and sweet. I couldn't put it down.

"People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honour. We do the best we can."

You will never fully know what people are trying to overcome. It’s hard to make it in the world as is, even harder in a place that makes you feel less than who you are. But at the end of it all, "they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then?"

The Book of Unknown Americans is a story that leaves you with hope.

A profoundly life-changing lecture. Brené Brown helps us to see the beauty that lies in being vulnerable. Being vulnerable is difficult, but it’s an essential step to us being wholeheartedly our genuine selves.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. - Theodore Roosevelt

I will be listening to this lecture again shortly.

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Was not expecting ANY of it! A lot to unpack here y’all.