“I know you know this, but I want to repeat that when someone(s) treats you poorly, it is a reflection of him or herself and the misery within the heart of them. It doesn’t help a bit to hear that when you’re young, but later it will.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“But we aren’t defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.”
― The Book of Lost Names
― The Book of Lost Names
“Science seeks to find truth in the natural world; art seeks to find truth in the emotional world.”
― I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
― I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
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“But it is never a kindness to allow a lie to stand, however hard the pursuit of the truth may be. In the end, light is the only thing that has ever chased away darkness—the only thing that ever will. Seek truth in all things, my dearest girl. There can be no healing without it.”
― The Last of the Moon Girls
― The Last of the Moon Girls
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