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“Living in a female body, a Black body, an aging body, a fat body, a body with mental illness is to awaken daily to a planet that expects a certain set of apologies to already live on our tongues. There is a level of “not enough” or “too much” sewn into these strands of difference.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul. “I know the tears you shed, Benjamin. When people leave this Earth, their loved ones always weep.” She smiled. “But I promise you, those who leave do not.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel

“This world can be a trying place, Inspector. Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel

“I don't need company,' I [Benjamin Kierney] said. 'I'm just thinking about things.'

'Your fate,' the Lord said.

'Something like that.'

'Perhaps I can help.'

I actually laughed. 'Why? If I were God, I would have given up on me long ago.'

'But you are not,' he said, 'and I never will.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be kind in a world as cruel as ours.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

“If I asked you to catch me the moon with your bare hands, how would you do it?" she asked suddenly. Adil closed his eyes, and Karina could not stop staring at the way the gold light illuminated his dark skin.
"When the moon began to set, I'd wait with my hands beneath it until it sank right into them. And then I'd turn around and give it to you." He turned to his side and gave Karina a shy smile. "But that's a stupid answer, isn't it?”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

“Life isn't given to be deserved. It's given to be lived. If you can find one thing that makes it worth seeing another day, then you've done all you're meant to do.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

“There are choices you make in life that cannot be undone and that cannot be buried. They can only be carried, and you either buckle beneath the weight of them or grow strong enough not to. And growing is always worth it if it helps you get to that next thing that makes life worth living.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

“Don’t let the mistakes of your past dictate your future.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

“No one had ever looked at him like that, as if his very presence made their world better.
He doubted anyone ever would.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

“You're never going to be the person you were with him again. But each day is a chance to become someone just as good.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

“I revel in the beauty that God has given me of which there is no end.”
― Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant, My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons:Building a Foundation for Success

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“I couldn't tell her that things would be okay, or that she'd get better. Sometimes people just needed you to listen to them---not try to solve their problems. I could do that, even if I couldn't do anything else.”
― Rena Barron, Maya and the Return of the Godlings

“I don't think you turn thirty and become immune to mistake-making or lesson learning. You grow wiser (supposedly) but never omniscient. There's always something you need to be taught, and so you keep learning and you keep growing up- until you're dead.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“You're Christian Shu. Do you always believe in God?

Yeah, of course. Got To.

Why?

Because, she says. I can't carry on living believing human beings are as good as it gets. She looks at me.

We're the worst.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness?”
― Jessica George, Maame

“We grow up fast. Not by force, but because we are needed.'
'I think sometimes we're needed for the wrong reasons.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“I am both ever evolving and ever decaying.”
― Stephanie Kuehn, Charm & Strange

“Be humble because you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book