self esteem

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Top five regrets of the dying

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

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Great minds don’t think alike. They challenge each other to think differently.

— Adam Grant

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What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.

— Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction