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“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.”
― Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy
― Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy
“We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.”
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“Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
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