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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Remember, saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. … You’re my teacher.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“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

“Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“There is toxicity everywhere around us. In the environment, in the political atmosphere, but the origin is in people’s hearts. Unless we clean the ecology of our own heart and inspire others to do the same, we will be an instrument of polluting the environment. But if we create purity in our own heart, then we can contribute great purity to the world around us.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“The biggest lie is that the fight to address male suffering is separate or at adds with the battle to liberate women. We all experience gender. We are all limited by oppressive gender stereotypes.”
― Liz Plank, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

“The biggest lie is that the fight to address male suffering is separate or at odds with the battle to liberate women. We all experience gender. We are all limited by oppressive gender stereotypes. We must transcend the myth of the gender war. We’re all on the same team.”
― Liz Plank, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

“While women are encouraged to ask questions, men are expected to pretend like they know everything even when they don’t, even when it comes to large and existential questions about their gender and their lives.”
― Liz Plank, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

“The system works because it’s not questioned. The system works because men think they are passing it down out of love, when of course denying boys the full experience of their humanity is what truly loving them would look like.”
― Liz Plank, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity