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“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. ”
― M. Scott Peck

“To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Reality is inside the skull.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.”
― Janet Evanovich

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I sometimes find myself offering an obvious, often-ignored observation to men who are attempting to grieve disappointing lives: we can only start from where we are, never from where we wish we were.”
― Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives

“So self-acceptance does not mean self-admiration or even self-liking at every moment of our lives, but tolerance for all our emotions, including those that make us feel uncomfortable.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Seasons flow in a cycle.
Life too, passes through difficult winters.
But after any winter, spring will follow.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“But it's important to be happy about the little you have. However little it is, it's infinitely more than nothing.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery

“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout