“Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.”

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Douglas Coupland193

Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and grap… 1961

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

“Sometimes you don't realize your own strength
Until you come face to face with
Your greatest weaknesses.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.”

Charles de Lint (1951) author

"Journal Entries", p. 186
Memory and Dream (1994)
Context: I've always had these bouts of depression; I hide them well but doesn't mean they aren't there. … I didn't have anyone around for whom I had to put on a cheerful mask. The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

“You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Interview with Julius Lester, "James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick" in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
Variant: You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.