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“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable." ~~~~ Mark Manson”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“- Anh ơi, nàng nói và quay mặt không nhìn, ở bên anh em thấy sung sướng vạn phần, không gì sánh được... nhưng anh hãy tin em: Chúng ta sinh ra không phải để tìm hạnh phúc. Tôi sôi nổi đáp: -Linh hồn con người còn có thể tìm ra được gì hơn hạnh phúc nữa? Nàng nói rất nhỏ: -Lòng trong sạch thiêng liêng.”
― André Gide, Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars