“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
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“Be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf—seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life. Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you—and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.”
― Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
― Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
“August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--"
Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...
August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...
August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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