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M.L. Stedman
“But how? How can you just get over these things, darling?...You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it?'
'I choose to...I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget.'
'But it's not that easy.'
He smiled that Frank smile. 'Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things...I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount. That I did a proper job of hating, too: very Teutonic! No' - his voice became sober- 'we always have a choice. All of us.”
M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

Nick Vujicic
“I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have”
Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

Bob Goff
“I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.”
Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Harper Lee
“It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end”
Julia Nicole Camp

5989 Clean Reads — 6885 members — last activity Jan 25, 2026 04:30PM
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