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Question 1

“When you learn, teach,” she said frequently. “When you get, give.”

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Question 2

“We are more alike than we are unalike!”.

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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

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My grandmother would get out of bed at four o’clock (she never used an alarm clock) and creak down to her knees and chant in a sleep-filled voice, “Our Father, thank you for letting me see this New Day. Thank you that you didn’t allow the bed I lay on last night to be my cooling board, nor my blanket my winding sheet. Guide my feet this day along the straight and narrow, and help me to put a bridle on my tongue. Bless this house, and everybody in it. Thank you, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, Amen. ”.

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Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

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He was also able to find more hours in the day than I thought.

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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn’t really absolutely know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed.

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I remember never believing that whites were really real.

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Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.

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Momma told us that the less you say to whitefolks (or even powhitetrash) the better,.

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Deuteronomy was my favorite book in the Bible. The laws were so absolute, so clearly set down, that I knew if a person truly wanted to avoid hell and brimstone, and being roasted forever in the devil’s fire, all she had to do was memorize Deuteronomy and follow its teaching, word for word. I also liked the way the word rolled off the tongue.

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Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art.

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When a person is beating you you should scream as loud as possible; maybe the whipper will become embarrassed or else some sympathetic soul might come to your rescue.

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Laughter so easily turns to hysteria for imaginative children.

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People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream.

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I think that everyone thought that the Depression, like everything else, was for the whitefolks, so it had nothing to do with them.

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The Depression, at least, did not discriminate.

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Question 18

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

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Question 19

We learned the Time Step at Louie’s. It is from this basic step that most American Black dances are born.

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Question 20

I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. ”.

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Question 21

They showed me a contentment based on the belief that nothing more was coming to them, although a great deal more was due.

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Question 22

“Now Ju, be careful you don’t slip up on a not true. ” (Nice people didn’t say “lie. ”).

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Question 23

It followed that Mrs. Flowers would have ice on an ordinary day, when most families in our town bought ice late on Saturdays only a few times during the summer to be used in the wooden ice-cream freezers.

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I was liked, and what a difference it made.

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Question 25

Childhood’s logic never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute).

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Question 26

I found that my violation lay in using the phrase “by the way. ” Momma explained that “Jesus was the Way, the Truth and the Light,” and anyone who says “by the way” is really saying, “by Jesus,” or “by God,” and the Lord’s name would not be taken in vain in her house.

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Question 27

Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name. ” It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks.

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Question 28

It was a tossup over whether I would laugh (imagine being named Hallelujah) or cry (imagine letting some white woman rename you for her convenience).

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Question 29

Southern Blacks until the present generation could be counted among America’s arch conservatives.

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Question 30

Bailey was so far away he was beyond fear.

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Interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

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Question 32

Other churches wondered if the Holy Rollers were going to heaven after all their shouting. The suggestion was that they were having their heaven right here on earth.

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They basked in the righteousness of the poor and the exclusiveness of the downtrodden. Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly—mostly-let them have their whiteness. It was better to be meek and lowly, spat upon and abused for this little time than to spend eternity frying in the fires of hell. No one would have admitted that the Christian and charitable people were happy to think of their oppressors’ turning forever on the Devil’s spit over the flames of fire and brimstone.

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Question 34

It’s another to the body, and it looks like Louis is going down. ” My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. It was a white woman slapping her maid for being forgetful.

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Question 35

It wouldn’t do for a Black man and his family to be caught on a lonely country road on a night when Joe Louis had proved that we were the strongest people in the world.

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I never talked about St. Louis to her, and had generally come to believe that the nightmare with its attendant guilt and fear hadn’t really happened to me. It happened to a nasty little girl, years and years before, who had no chain on me at all.

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Question 37

As children do, I thought that since she was very old she had only one thing to do, and that was to die.

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Question 38

Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs. ” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.

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Question 39

But to be able to operate at a top level with both adults and children was admirable.

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Question 40

Habits change or solidify under pressure,.

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Question 41

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom,.

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Question 42

The ugliness they left was palpable. An uninvited guest who wouldn’t leave.

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Question 43

It was the poem written by James Weldon Johnson. It was the music composed by J. Rosamond Johnson. It was the Negro national anthem. Out of habit we were singing it.

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Question 44

We were on top again. As always, again. We survived. The depths had been icy and dark, but now a bright sun spoke to our souls. I was no longer simply a member of the proud graduating class of 1940; I was a proud member of the wonderful, beautiful Negro race.

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Question 45

It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness.

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Question 46

My policy is I’d rather stick my hand in a dog’s mouth than in a nigger’s. ”.

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Question 47

Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma. Her African-bush secretiveness and suspiciousness had been compounded by slavery and confirmed by centuries of promises made and promises broken. We have a saying among Black Americans which describes Momma’s caution. “If you ask a Negro where he’s been, he’ll tell you where he’s going. ”.

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Question 48

The partner lived, though shot twice, and although the partnership was dissolved they retained admiration for each other. He had been shot, true, but in her fairness she had warned him. And he had had the strength to give her two black eyes and then live. Admirable qualities.

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Question 49

The Japanese area became San Francisco’s Harlem in a matter of months.

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Question 50

They never hesitated to hold up their hands in response to a teacher’s question; even when they were wrong they were wrong aggressively, while I had to be certain about all my facts before I dared to call attention to myself.

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Question 51

“all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market. ”.

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Question 52

She was stimulating instead of intimidating.

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Question 53

Where some of the other teachers went out of their way to be nice to me—to be a “liberal” with me—and others ignored me completely, Miss Kirwin never seemed to notice that I was Black and therefore different.

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Question 54

By all accounts those storytellers, born Black and male before the turn of the twentieth century, should have been ground into useless dust. Instead they used their intelligence to pry open the door of rejection and not only became wealthy but got some revenge in the bargain.

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Question 55

The needs of a society determine its ethics,.

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Question 56

Stories of law violations are weighed on a different set of scales in the Black mind than in the white.

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Question 57

At school, in a given situation, we might respond with “That’s not unusual. ” But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, “It be’s like that sometimes. ”.

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Question 58

The dirt roads of Mexico fulfilled all my longing for the unusual.

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Question 59

It is hard to understand why my vivid imagination and tendency toward scariness didn’t provide me with gory scenes of bloody crashes on a risco de Mexico.

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Question 60

We drove into the city in a cold and private silence.

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Question 61

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

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Question 62

I was a loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor.

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Question 63

My car was an island and the junkyard a sea, and I was all alone and full of warm. The mainland was just a decision away.

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Question 64

His maturity embarrassed me.

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The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

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Question 66

Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you’ve got. I’ve told you many times, ‘Can’t do is like Don’t Care. ’ Neither of them have a home. ”.

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Question 67

Sitting at a side table my mind and I wove a cat’s ladder of near truths and total lies.

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Question 68

I was hired as the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars.

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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence.

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Mother must have concluded that since I was above out-and-out lying I was also beyond deceit. She was deceived.

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Question 71

Life had a conveyor-belt quality. It went on unpursued and unpursuing,.

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Question 72

You don’t have to think about doing the right thing. If you’re for the right thing, then you do it without thinking. ”.

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Question 73

At a second station, a camper held a brick representing guilt. As the brick became too heavy, another camper shared the burden of its weight. These exercises helped show my children that their emotions were normal and other kids felt them too.

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Question 74

The club that no one wants to belong to is incredibly bonding. Perhaps because none of us wanted to join, we cling to one another.

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Question 75

The Underground Scholars Initiative, a group that supports Berkeley students affected by incarceration.

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The Posse Foundation is another organization founded on the importance of grouping students with similar backgrounds to combat feelings of isolation.

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Since 1989, Posse has helped nearly seven thousand students attend college with a 90 percent graduation rate.

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Collective stories create identity for communities.

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Question 79

When college students were reminded of their gender before taking a math test, women performed 43 percent worse than men. When the exact same test was called a “problem-solving test” instead of a “math test,” the gender gap in performance vanished.

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Question 80

“stereotype threat”: the fear of being reduced to a negative stereotype. That fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when anxiety disrupts our thinking and causes us to conform to the stereotype.

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Question 81

Often the people fighting injustice are themselves the victims of injustice.

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Question 82

Some of the world’s greatest achievements have been rooted in personal tragedies.

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Question 83

Journalist Antoine Leiris, whose wife Hélène was killed in a 2015 Paris terrorist attack. Just two days later he wrote, “On Friday night, you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate…. I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you. ”.

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Question 84

“Moral elevation” describes the feeling of being uplifted by an act of uncommon goodness. Elevation brings out what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature. ”.

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Question 85

Martin Luther King Jr. Said, “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. ”.

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“What unites us is stronger than what divides us,”.

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Question 87

Resilient communities have strong social ties—bonds between people, bridges between groups, and links to local leaders.

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Question 88

This work made me acutely aware that even the most heroic examples of individual resilience can be inadequate in the face of poverty and untreated illness. When people with leprosy were kicked out of their villages, no amount of individual resilience could have helped them.

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Question 89

Empowering communities builds collective resilience.

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Question 90

In China, women who are single past the age of twenty-seven are stigmatized as sheng nu, or “leftover women. ”.

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Question 91

Being part of a community can give us strength that we sometimes can’t find on our own.

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Question 92

We find our humanity—our will to live and our ability to love—in our connections to one another.

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Question 93

The more times a government or company had failed, the more likely they were to put a rocket into orbit successfully on the next try.

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Question 94

Their chances of success increased after a rocket exploded compared to a smaller failure.

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Question 95

Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely.

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Question 96

Elon had asked for the top ten risks in advance of the launch, and the problem that caused the failure turned out to be number eleven. Pro tip: ask for top eleven risks.

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Question 97

Just as all people need resilience, all organizations do too.

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Question 98

To be resilient after failures, we have to learn from them. Most of the time, we know this; we just don’t do it. We’re too insecure to admit mistakes to ourselves or too proud to admit them to others. Instead of opening up, we get defensive and shut down.

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Question 99

Creating a culture that encourages individuals to acknowledge their missteps and regrets.

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Question 100

The majority of regrets were about failures to act, not actions that failed.

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Question 101

Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took.

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Question 102

When things went wrong at work, it was important to me that the people responsible for the mistake acknowledge it.

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Question 103

Try hard things and discuss failures openly.

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Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don’t,.

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Question 105

Gathering and acting on negative feedback is how you reach your potential.

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Question 106

Although fishing for compliments hurts your reputation, asking for criticism signals that you care about improving.

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Question 107

One of the best ways to see ourselves clearly is to ask others to hold up a mirror.

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Question 108

“The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way,”.

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Question 109

Accepting feedback is easier when you don’t take it personally.

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Question 110

“After every low score you receive,” law professors Doug Stone and Sheila Heen advise, you should “give yourself a ‘second score’ based on how you handle the first score…. Even when you get an F for the situation itself, you can still earn an A+ for how you deal with it. ”.

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Question 111

The ability to listen to feedback is a sign of resilience,.

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Question 112

Building resilient teams and organizations takes open and honest communication. When companies fail, it’s usually for reasons that almost everyone knows but almost no one has voiced.

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Question 113

One of my favorite posters on our office walls reads, “Nothing at Facebook is someone else’s problem. ”.

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Question 114

Carolyn Everson, who runs our global sales teams, shares her performance reviews in an internal Facebook group with 2,400 members. She wants her entire team to see how she’s working to improve.

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“I wanted to be a role model in that perfect ‘put together’ sense. Instead, I told them I had cancer and would need their support. ” Their response blew her away. Caryn’s teammates pulled together to help—and.

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Question 116

It turns out that people who choose to be single are very satisfied with their lives.

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Question 117

In the Jewish religion, mourning for a parent, child, or sibling is a year, but mourning for a spouse is just thirty days. “The rabbis wanted people to move forward,” he said.

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Question 118

Widows continue to face cruel treatment around the world. In some parts of India, widows are cast away by their own families, left to beg to survive.

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Question 119

Still, dating does not erase my grief. All of us in the club understand this. You can miss your spouse and be with someone else,.

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Question 120

“I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life,” she told me. “Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world. ”.

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Question 121

Brain scans of people in love reveal an intoxicating state of energy and euphoria. After we fall in love, we gain confidence and self-esteem and expand our identities.

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Question 122

If love is the third rail of grief, laughter is equally charged. In the face of death, it feels wildly inappropriate to joke about anything.

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Question 123

Humor can make us more resilient. Surgery patients who watch comedies request 25 percent less pain medication. Soldiers who make jokes deal better with stress. People who laugh naturally six months after losing a spouse cope better. Couples who laugh together are more likely to stay married. Physiologically, humor lowers our heart rate and relaxes our muscles. Evolutionarily, humor is a signal that a situation is safe. Laughter breaks tension by making stressful situations less threatening.

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Question 124

Mel Brooks said he made fun of Hitler and the Nazis because “if you can reduce them to ridicule then you’re way ahead. ”.

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Question 125

One of the most important things I’ve learned is how deeply you can keep loving someone after they die.

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Question 126

Psychologists find that when people are falling in love, even arguments make them more attracted to each other.

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Question 127

The newlyweds who stayed together over the next six years turned toward each other 86 percent of the time, while couples who got divorced turned toward each other only 33 percent. Most of the couples’ fights weren’t about money or sex but about “failed bids for connection. ”.

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Question 128

There were three parties in any relationship: you, the other person, and the relationship itself. The relationship is a meaningful entity that needs to be protected and nurtured.

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Question 129

In the couples whose marriages lasted, instead of escalating negativity, both partners showed humor and affection. They took responsibility for their problems and found ways to compromise. They sent signals that even though they were fighting, at a deeper level, they were okay.

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Question 130

Resilience in love means finding strength from within that you can share with others. Finding a way to make love last through the highs and lows. Finding your own way to love when life does not work out as planned. Finding the hope to love and laugh again when love is cruelly taken from you. And finding a way to hang on to love even when the person you love is gone.

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Question 131

Grief has to unfold.

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Question 132

Tragedy does not have to be personal, pervasive, or permanent, but resilience can be.

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Question 133

Arianna Huffington reminded us that people read not just to learn but to hope.

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