

“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
“if there are no heros to save you,
Then you be the hero”
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Then you be the hero”
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“He saw all those private aspects of me - and I mean not just sexual private parts, but my darker side, my meanness, my pettiness, my self-loathing - all the things I kept hidden. So that with him I was completely naked, and when I was feeling the most vulnerable - when the wrong word would have sent me flying out the door forever - he always said exactly the right thing at the right moment. He didn't allow me to cover myself up. He would grab my hands, look me straight in the eye and tell me something new about why he loved me.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
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