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“In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Needing people ended in hurt.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”
― William Jones

“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. —EPICTETUS”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“be grateful for what life has offered you and be generous, especially when fortune and luck desert you.”
― Anand Neelakantan, Ajaya: Roll of the Dice

“Every principle is broken one day or another and if it is for the right cause, there is nothing wrong in that.”
― Anand Neelakantan, Ajaya: Roll of the Dice

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else

“But over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past. I can be miserable, or I can be hopeful—I can be depressed, or I can be happy. We always have that choice, that opportunity for control. I’m here, this is now, I have learned to tell myself, over and over, until the panicky feeling begins to ease.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Monks understand that routine frees your mind, but the biggest threat to that freedom is monotony. People complain about their poor memories, but I’ve heard it said that we don’t have a retention problem, we have an attention problem.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Albert Einstein said, “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won’t be able to fulfill.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“the easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy