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“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.”
― Kim Thúy, Ru

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Suppose we give something to someone. With the wisdom of nondiscrimination, we see that there is no giver and no receiver. If we still think that we’re the giver and the other person is the receiver, then that’s not perfect giving. We give because the other person is in need of what we’re giving and the act is very natural. If we’re really practicing generosity, we won’t say, “He’s not grateful at all.” We won’t have these kinds of ideas.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

“Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness . . . happiness [is] when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Intimacy is the feeling you can completely be yourself around someone no matter what.”
― Mark Manson, Love Is Not Enough

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. (p.9)”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Something that I have come to realize over the years of working as a psychologist is how much people struggle with low mood and never tell a soul.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“Believing takes practice.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“We do not know what things look like.
We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Đừng quá lo lắng cho con đường mình đã chọn hay phải chọn, vì thái độ bước đi trên con đường ấy mới thực sự là quan trọng.”
― Minh Niệm, Hiểu về trái tim : nghệ thuật sống hạnh phúc

“Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.”
― Don DeLillo, The Body Artist