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Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

Ariel Gore
Children, Care, Want

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Ariel Gore
Emotion, Acceptable, Has Beens

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

Ariel Gore
Writing, Class, Ideas
Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.7, Three Rivers Press

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Ariel Gore
Psychology, Privilege, Stuck

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Ariel Gore
Heart, Blood, Three
Ariel Gore (2003). “Atlas of the Human Heart”, p.14, Seal Press

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

Ariel Gore
New Relationship, Irritated, New Friends

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

Ariel Gore
Christian, Positive Thinking, Hands

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

Ariel Gore
Hurt, People, Worry

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

Ariel Gore
Skills, Challenges, Balance
Ariel Gore (2010). “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness”, p.123, Macmillan

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