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“When we can't take ownership of the situation, we can still take ownership for the process.”
― Ali Abdaal, Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

“People come into your life for a reason, season, or a lifetime.”
― Jean Dominque Martin

“A job is just a job. No project, deadline or meeting is worth sacrificing your physical and mental health.”
― Deborah Grayson Riegel

“Happiness is feeling good about yourself, having close relationships, making the world a better place.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk 1st edition - Train your M by jay shetty

“But when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I felt trapped in quicksand. Books were about movement. Beginning and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I said I wasn’t depressed; I was just bored. I hadn’t considered that if the only thing that keeps you going all day is knowing you’ll get to turn on the TV after dinner, you probably are depressed.”
― Lori Gottlieb

“I feel like I'm in the middle of the ocean. Like I could swim in any direction but I can't see land so I don't know which way to go.”
― Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now

“The only way to figure out what to do is to do- something.”
― Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now

“I think about how it's the not knowing that torments all of us. At a certain point, we all have to come to terms with the unknown and the unknowable. Sometimes we'll never know why.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Falling in love never gets old. No matter how jaded you are, how much suffering love has caused you, a new love can’t help but make you feel hopeful and alive, like that first time. Maybe this time it’s more grounded- you have more experience, you’re wiser, you know you have less time- it your heart still leaps when you hear your lovers voice or see that text pop up on you phone.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy. But I’ve learned that lesson now, the hard way. You have to speak the thing that you’re feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“Be an intentional friend, one that pays careful attention to a pal's life and needs. Treat a friendship like the gift that it is.”
― Marla Paul, The Friendship Crisis

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's characters aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us