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

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, If Someone Says You Complete Me, Run!: Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships

“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Walter and I had shared a mind, of course. Couples get that way. I think it has something to do with sharing a bed. The mind, untethered during sleep, travels up and away, dancing, sometimes in partners. Things pass back and forth in dreams.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“I felt I needed to hide a little. My mind needed a smaller world to roam.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands