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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Lost time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Speak little, do much.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Today is Yesterday's Pupil.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“What you would seem to be, be really.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.

My mother went through it.

I went through it.

I'll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.

I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I think about how easy it is for humans to make judgments when we're standing on the outside of a situation.
It's easy when we're on the outside to believe that we would walk away without second thought if a person mistreated us. It's easy to say we couldn't continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren't the ones feeling the love of that person.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I know that you believe he loves you,and i'm sure he does. But he's not loving you the right way. He doesn't love you the way you deserve to be loved. If Ryle truly loves you,he wouldn't allow you to take him back. He would make the decision to leave you himself so that he knows for a fact he can never hurt you again. That's the kind of love a woman deserves,Lily”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“But I don’t want her to live like I lived. I
don’t want her to see her father at his
worst. I don’t want her to see him when
he loses his temper with me to the point
that she no longer recognizes him as her
father. Because no matter how many
good moments she might share with Ryle
throughout her lifetime, I know from
experience that it would only be the
worst ones that stuck with her.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.”
― Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

“Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle,” I told him. “A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go. It’s no wonder you feel shaky.”
― Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded