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“Do not doubt your ability to remove the root cause of the disturbance inside of you. It really can go away. You can look deep within yourself, to the core of your being, and decide that you don't want the weakest part of you running your life. You want to be free of this.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“Each of these shifts in your perception should remind you to let go. The moment you start to seeing that you don't like the people you used to like, the moment you start seeing that your life looks really different, the moment it all starts getting negative - let go.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“The world is unfolding and really has very little to do with you or your thoughts. It was here long before you came, and it will be here long after you leave. In the name of attempting to hold the world together, you're really just holding yourself together.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“It is axiomatic that one death is a tragedy, a thousand a statistic.”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

“The truth was that they enjoyed deceiving their parents. The secrecy was not merely necessary, it was fun. It injected a frission of the illicit and gave them a shared psychic space in a society where privacy didn't exist. It was a relatively safe way to rebel against the confines of their lives.”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

“While there is little research evidence that such uniforms make a difference in student performance, they send a strong visual signal of prestige to potential school consumers and investors.”
― Jennifer Berkshire, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

“Just as a jewel that has been buried in the earth for a million years is not discolored or harmed, in the same way this noble heart is not affected by all of our kicking and screaming. The jewel can be brought out into the light at any time, and it will glow as brilliantly as if nothing has ever happened. No matter how committed we are to unkindness, selfishness, or greed, the genuine heart of bodhichitta cannot be lost. It is here that all lives, never marred and completely whole.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“Neither one of us talks, the way people sometimes don’t when they are happy – but as soon as I have this thought, I realise its opposite is also true.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“Where there’s a secret,’ she says, ‘there’s shame – and shame is something we can do without.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“At first, I struggled with some of the bigger words, but Kinsella kept his fingernail under each, patiently, until I guessed it or half-guessed it and then I did this by myself until I no longer needed to guess, and read on. It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn’t have gone before, and it was easy.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“A great soul like Buddha or Jesus wasn't just a lamp at the door; they were beacons. You and I may feel smaller than Buddha or Jesus, yet that is an opinion formed by out own egos. Spirituality, all the light being expressed through a human begin is equal, at least in terms of quantity. Why? Because light is a metaphor for the power of consciousness. Everyone's consciousness draws from the same underlying reality.”
― Deepak Chopra, Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End

“I came to A.A. in order to stop drinking; what I received in return was my life.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous

“We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.

The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others,
the happier he is.
The more he gives to others,
the wealthier he is.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And we are not wrong… If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie. Love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
― Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

“He warned that materialism undermined our moral values, that nationalism threatened to crush all hope of universal brotherhood, that militarism bred cynicism and distrust. He saw a moral rot at the core of American life and worried that racism had blinded many of us to”
― Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

“The racial condition … will never be settled right until a more friendly contact is made among the ministers of both races.”
― Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

“If you can do one single thing towards a just, durable, and creative peace, you will have fulfilled your major obligation to the world,”
― Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

“Great men … have not been boasters and buffoons,” wrote Emerson, “but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.”
― Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

“They said to one another, Behold, this dreamer cometh … Let us slay him … And we shall see what will become of his dreams.”
― Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“People are a lot more knowable than they think they are.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty