“It's never too late to change your life for the better. You don't have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“I had screwed up. Grown-ups didn’t go around blurting out troublesome things to people. You couldn’t just blithely disclose something that would then make it impossible to greet them with a smile the next day.”
― Strange Weather in Tokyo
― Strange Weather in Tokyo
“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
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“How could it be anything but hard! It was more than the human heart could bear: to fall beneath the beloved ax -- then have to justify its wisdom.
But that is the price a man pays for entrusting his God-given soul to human dogma.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
But that is the price a man pays for entrusting his God-given soul to human dogma.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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