"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality." ••Irving Babbitt

 "Healthy positivity means making space for both reality and hope.  Toxic positivity denies an emotion and forces us to suppress it.  When we use toxic positivity, we are telling ourselves and others that this emotion shouldn't exist, it's wrong, and if we try just a little bit harder, we can eliminate it entirely."

••Whitney Goodman

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A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”

― Astrid Lindgren