Stephanie

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
― Pamela Lyndon Travers

“If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale