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“Peace stems from forgiveness.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“You have to weave two stories together to tell them both right.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“He said, ‘People don’t get lost on the outside. They get lost on the inside. Why are there no maps of that?’ ”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“It is interesting how, once you have decided to strike out on a new course of action, events often transpire to help you. Not always in an obvious fashion, or immediately. And sometimes in ways you would never have considered.”
― David Michie, The Dalai Lama's Cat

“But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go of the limiting stories you’ve told yourself about who you are so that you aren’t trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you’ve been telling yourself about your life.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“If you are falling....dive.”
― Joseph Campbell

“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.
Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.
Having a sense of humor saves you.”
― Joseph Campbell

“nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Writing,” Toni Morrison once said, “is really a way of thinking—not just feeling but thinking about those things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic, or just sweet.”
― Ben Philippe, Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Earth can carry about four billion people—not seven, not eight, not nine. Not for long. And the last time there were four billion people on the planet was in 1975. We need to shrink the number of humans on the planet. There’s a simple way to do this. No person on Earth should have more than one child. A two-parent family should have no more than two children. This would stop the increase in human population—in fact, it would start to shrink it, since not every adult wants to have a child.”
― Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition): How You Can Save the World in Your Own Yard

“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones