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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Nie den Mut gehabt, sie zu gewinnen, immer nur die Angst, sie zu verlieren.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Du bist nicht schuld an deiner Kindheit und am Tod unserer Eltern. Aber du bist schuld daran, was diese Dinge mit dir machen. Du allein trägst die Verantwortung für dich und dein Leben. Und wenn du nur tust, was du immer getan hast, wirst du auch nur bekommen, was du immer bekommen hast.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“He couldn't remember where he had come from, and ultimately he didn't know where he would go. But he could look back without regret on the time in between, his life, with a full-throated laugh and utter amazement.”
― Robert Seethaler, A Whole Life

“You can buy a man's hours off him, you can steal his days from him, or you can rob him of his whole life, but no one can take away from any man so much as a single moment. That's the way it is.”
― Robert Seethaler, A Whole Life

“Wie alle Menschen hatte auch er während seines Lebens Vorstellungen und Träume in sich getragen. Manches davon hatte er sich selbst erfüllt, manches war ihm geschenkt worden. Vieles war unerreichbar geblieben oder war ihm, kaum erreicht, wieder aus den Händen gerissen worden. Aber er war immer noch da.”
― Robert Seethaler

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. ”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“...(S)uffering is universal. But victimhood is optional. There is a difference between victimization and victimhood. We are all likely to victimized in some way in the course of our lives. At some point we will suffer some kind of affliction or calamity or abuse, caused by circumstances or people or institutions over which we have little or no control. This is life. And this is victimization. It comes from outside. It's the neighborhood bully, the boss who rages, the spouse who hits, the lover who cheats, the discriminatory law, the accident that lands you in the hospital.

In contrast, victimhood comes from the inside. No one can make you a victim but you. We become victims not because of what happens to us but when we choose to hold on to our victimization. We develop a victim's mind -- a way of thinking and being that is rigid, blaming, pessimistic, stuck in the past, unforgiving, punitive, and without healthy limits or boundaries. We become our own jailors when we choose the confines of the victim's mind.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible