Imani

“We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.”
― Sandor Marai, Embers

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.”
― Sándor Márai, Embers