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“We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide.”
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“Everybody looked down on someone else. It didn´t matter that everybody shared the same sidewalk to spit on and suffered the same fast-moving diarrhea. We all had the same stink, but everybody complained someone else smelled the worst.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
― Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
― Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
“I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed.”
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