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David Brooks Quotes: Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.
         

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.


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Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.
         



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Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.



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Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.



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It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?



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It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.



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Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.



Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.



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