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How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

by Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 05, 2026 08:37AM

“Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

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“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

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“She was life itself.Wild and free. wonderfully chaotic.A perfectly put together mess”
― The Better Project man

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“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

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“I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

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