Paprika Gu

“But sometimes I think we choose our illnesses, because they benefit us in some way.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’, a force in nature governed by the laws of gravity. The rules of quest physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and set out on a truth seeking journey either internally or externally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared most of all to face and forgive some of the most difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be witheld from you”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love