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“Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress—the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Sometimes”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“They’re not special at all. The South Side is filled with kids like that.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”
― Tara Westover

“In the end, the courage of women can't be stamped out. And stories - the big ones, the true ones - can be caught but never killed.”
― Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

“The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“As scary as this can be I want you to know no matter how broken you feel, and how seemingly unlikely it is, we are never too broken to heal.”
― Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

“That was what the books did—they turned off your thinking for you, put their thoughts in your head so you wouldn't have your own.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.”
― Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby