“Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face.” is is the foundation of How to Win Friends and Influence People, and it is still true today However, developing strategies for dealing with people is more complex.
The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant or awful. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
how you managed to survive.
You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
This storm is you. Something inside you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time.(1/3)
it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through,
I am just glad they don’t bother me. Because I had tons of things to take care of, including spending a lot of my free time, boring books in the library.