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“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

“He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung