Jean Toomer, poet and novelist

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. -Jean Toomer, poet and novelist (1894-1967)

Excellent advice! We tend to be blind to our own faults, but our friends and neighbors, and especially our spouses, often see them clearly. If they tell us, we can work on correcting them, and if we thank them for telling us, they will likely continue to do so, and probably will be more generous and forgiving toward us as well.

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