Krati Gupta

“If one advances confidently, Thoreau had written in Walden, in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. 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

“You never get a second chance to have a first impression.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Horse

“When was the last time you told someone that you weren’t ready for what they were asking you to do?”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life