Melissa

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Melissa’s Quotes

“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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

tags: life-lessons, passionate-living, work-life-balance

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“Thing is, you don't ever go back Maddie, to life before, and my advice is to accept that. To accept that you're not the same person you were when (view spoiler) and you can't be again. Accept that your life is different now because of this monumental, irreversible change and that it's okay to feel guilty one day and indescribable happiness another. This is life now. This is how you live.”
― Jessica George, Maame

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“You can't plan your life, Finn,' I say quietly, 'Because then you have a plan. Not a life.”
― Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here

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“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

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