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“you see, Peter, God is able to bring good out of evil for those whom you meant to injure, and you who did the evil were left to suffer the unhappy consequences of it.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi (Illustrated): The 1922 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations

“God wants me at the end of myself so he can build me back up in ways that reflect more goodness, more him. He wants my self-pity and ego to be sacrificed on the altar of Much Better Things.”
― Shannan Martin, Falling Free: Rescued from the Life I Always Wanted

“The people who scored higher in empathy also scored much higher in reading body language, conflict-resolution skills, resilience, and standing by their values.”
― Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips, The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People