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“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

“That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“If I ain’t nothing but trouble, you ain’t nothing but Nothing.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“No job is beneath you.

You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail. ”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“He wants to put his story next to hers.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations...”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
― Maya Angelou

“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“you got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“I'd been wandering about in the enchantments of romance, afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old. She said, “Handful, your granny-mauma saw it for herself. She say they flew over trees and clouds. She say they flew like blackbirds. When we came here, we left that magic behind.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Do not fear to lose what needs to be lost.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Sarah was up in her room with her heart broke so bad, Binah said you could hear it jangle when she walked.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“the time to assert one’s right is when it’s denied!”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it in the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn...I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings