Quoting Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. Lunch: The Meeting of Two Mischievous People, p. 74, 2016

Everybody may want to be happy […] but the challenge is a lot of people don’t know how. You were talking about the importance of being warmhearted, but a lot of people are shy or have a hard time opening up to other people. They get scared. They’re afraid of rejection
[but] when you approach people with trust, then it inspires trust in them as well.

— Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. Lunch: The Meeting of Two Mischievous People, p. 74, 2016

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