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“You can’t tell people what to be, I’m afraid,” said Rosie. “You can only love and support who they already are.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“A feeling is not a fact.”
― Kenneth Oppel, The Nest

“It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it.”
― Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

“The world was beautiful. It surprised me, how beautiful it kept on insisting on being. In spite of all the lies, it was beautiful.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Louisiana's Way Home

“If you have to consider what’s going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I would be a selfish human being if I kept all this vivid imagination to myself. The world needs to read it, feel it, be there, within those words, in my faraway world.”
― Chris G. Wright

“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.”
― Neil Peart

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
― George Carlin

“How are you supposed to feel if you are forced to do what you would have done anyway?”
― Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Fight dirty, and go for the face. Gentlemen's rules are for gentlemen.”
― Taran Matharu, The Novice

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
― J.M. Coetzee

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Life and reading are not separate activities, When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books

“Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The Way Back to Florence

“The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Even when things are hard and exhausting and uncertain, they can still be good.”
― Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World

“Good rises when evil falls.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Be true to yourself. Be true to others. Be true to everyone. Be false to none.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.'

A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Dare more. Dream more. Do more. Deliver more.”
― Matshona Dhliwayohliwayo