Beth

“If you think too much about the ass-kicking your mom gave you, or the ass-kicking that life gave you, you’ll stop pushing the boundaries and breaking the rules. It’s better to take it, spend some time crying, then wake up the next day and move on. You’ll have a few bruises and they’ll remind you of what happened and that’s okay. But after a while the bruises fade, and they fade for a reason—because now it’s time to get up to some shit again.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“The truth is, if we become comfortable with who we are rather than who we think we should be, then we will be less insecure.”
― Daniel Gottlieb, Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening

“Maybe it’s not even his master plan; maybe it’s, like, the American Library Association’s master plan, and they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.”
― Michelle Knudsen, Evil Librarian