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Book: Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
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  1. George Saunders _ Congratulations, by the way:

    Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you-and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.
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  2. George Saunders _ Congratulations, by the way:

    So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering and I responded … sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
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  3. George Saunders _ Congratulations, by the way:

    I can look back and see that I've spent much of my life in a cloud of things that have tended to push "being kind" to the periphery. Things like: Anxiety. Fear. Insecurity. Ambition. The mistaken belief that enough accomplishment will rid me of all that anxiety, fear, insecurity, and ambition. The belief that if I can only accrue enough-enough accomplishment, money, fame-my neuroses will disappear. I've been in this fog certainly since, at least, my own graduation day. Over the years I've felt: Kindness, sure-but first let me finish this semester, this degree, this book; let me succeed at this job, and afford this house, and raise these kids, and then, finally, when all is accomplished, I'll get started on the kindness. Except it never all gets accomplished. It's a cycle that can go on … well, forever.
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  4. George Saunders _ Congratulations, by the way:

    Be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf-seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life. Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you-and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.
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  5. George Saunders _ Congratulations, by the way:

    What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering and I responded … sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
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