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“Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths – release the need to lie completely! Start NOW.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Cheerfulness is the charm of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita