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“Viaţa este un joc dur şi halucinant, viaţa înseamnă
salturi cu paraşuta, înseamnă risc, înseamnă să cazi şi să te ridici, înseamnă alpinism, înseamnă voinţă de a
ajunge în punctul tău cel mai înalt şi a te simţi nemulţumit şi neliniştit cînd nu reuşeşti să o faci.”
― Paulo Coelho

“In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“Imi pasa de cei morti pentru ca nu pot vorbi pentru ei insasi. Cei vii sunt pe cont propriu!”
― Megan H

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
― Michelle Obama

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

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.”
― Michelle Obama

“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”
― Barack Obama

“We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness
where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“I am no stranger to joy. I know that joy can be truly experienced only by those who have known adversity. And adversity is an inevitability.”
― Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes

“one of the greatest skills I have learned is not to feel a moral repulsion which others might think is not only justified but required.”
― Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes

“The most dangerous heart disease:
strong memory”
― Nizar Qabbani

“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don't know. First of all, there's a lot more things you don't know. And second, the things you don't know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don't know your friend, rather than the things you know, well then you're always on a quest in a sense. You're always looking for new information in the off chance that somebody who doesn't agree with you will tell you something you couldn't have figured out on your own! It's a completely different way of looking at the world. It's the antithesis of opinionated.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
― Margaret Drabble

“The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.”
― Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities

“One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.”
― Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities

“In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions