How are you feeling?
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Gentle says: it makes sense that this hurts, and here is one small next step. Tough love says: you are allowed to feel it, now here is what you do about it. Switch any time with the buttons at the top. How tough love works here.
A line for today
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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What you get on every page
- Verified quotes. Every line is checked word for word against a public-domain text. How we check.
- Plain-English notes on what each line means and what to try today.
- Flash cards and repeat mode to hear or read the same few lines again and again. Try the cards or the repeat player.
- Books and calm sounds to go further. Reading list, sounds.
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