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“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”

If you don’t have a goal, the world might give you one. You will be like a leaf, blowing with everything breeze and wholly affected by the world around you. You don’t want to be a rock, either, unaffected by the world and inflexible in your thoughts. Rather, be a tree: keeping your roots firm but also being able to sense and adapt to the world around you.

The only way to not be forever sad is to admit that we are, for the moment, sad.

Our personal laws can be our greatest crutch or our greatest asset.

This happens sometimes, where you notice yourself subtly but meaningfully surpassing your own expectations. And in that moment, you redone who you are for yourself. I am now someone who shares.

Knowledge can be power, but it can also be poison.

Human beings are programmed to find patterns, to make sense of random events, and, back then, curses were a favored explanation. The modern equivalent might be conspiracy theories.

Sometimes you have to fit into life, or waste a lot of time and energy wishing it would fit in with you.

There’d be no going back for me. You can’t unknow what you know. You can’t unsee what you’ve seen.