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busy ourselves trying not to be lonely, trying to find purpose in careers, and lovers, and children, but at any moment, those things we work so hard to possess could be taken from us. I feel better knowing I’m not alone, that the whole ...more
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Bryan Stevenson
“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Lisa Wingate
“What the mind don’t ’member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

Hyeonseo Lee
“One of the main reasons that distinctions between oppressor and victim are blurred in North Korea is that no one there has any concept of rights. To know that your rights are being abused, or that you are abusing someone else’s, you first have to know that you have them, and what they are.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

Catherine Price
“Mindfulness is about seeing the world more clearly”—including ourselves.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

Gabriel García Márquez
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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