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“In my experience, there were two kinds of men. One type—no matter how plain or how poor he might be—is always willing to at least try his luck with an attractive girl. The other type looks upon all of those first types with envy.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“I’ve come to wonder whether artists in particular seek out hard times the way flowers turn their faces toward the sun.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“There would be too much everything and not enough anything, and then where would that leave us?”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“Women are formed for love, yes, but also for purpose, and the highest state for a woman—for all humans, in fact—comes when one discovers and then achieves one’s ultimate purpose.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“I respect you when I don’t try to tell you how to live your life, how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how to do whatever you do in your kingdom.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Even the worst thing that can happen to you is meant to happen because it’s going to push you to grow.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“When you become impeccable with your word, your mind is no longer fertile ground for words that come from black magic. Instead, it is fertile for the words that come from love.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using The Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life

“Gossip is black magic because it spreads emotional poison, perpetuates fear, and keeps others down.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using The Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life

“Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using The Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life

“I declare a war against my Parasite for the freedom to use my own mind and body, for the freedom to become the architect of my own life, to design the life of my dreams, and to create a masterpiece of art.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using The Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life

“If we are selfish and we feel cranky, then we believe that nobody has the right to be happy around us.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

“If you don’t perceive love, if you cannot recognize love, it’s because you only recognize the poison inside you. I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what you understand. I can give you my love, but you can make the interpretation that you are receiving judgments, or who knows? Only your storyteller knows. When we no longer believe our own stories, we find it so easy to enjoy one another.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

“You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is real. You live your life by justifying that story. And by justifying the story, you are wasting your life.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

“To give to one another and receive from one another is the purpose of a relationship. We don’t need a lot of words. When we share time with someone, what is important is to communicate with feelings, not with words. But if we want to share words, we don’t need anything complicated. It’s just three words: “I love you.” That’s it. What makes you happy is not the love that other people feel for you, but the love you feel for other people.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

“You are alive, and you don’t need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

“I have always been perfect, and so have you. When we can't perceive this, it's because we are too busy judging everything for not being something other than what it is.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“This is what freedom is: the ability to enjoy and be exactly who you are without suppressing yourself in the form of judgment.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Your beliefs, and your beliefs alone, belong to you. You are the only one who is with you for your entire life.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“This relationship between us, however small it may be, is the dream called us.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“I am only responsible for what I say; I am not responsible for what you hear.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“I am a living being regardless of my knowledge, which exists only because I exist.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.”
― Sam Harris

“The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did in the past, and (2) that we are the conscious source of most of our thoughts and actions in the present.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness—rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“Consider what it would take to actually have free will. You would need to be aware of all the factors that determine your thoughts and actions, and you would need to have complete control over those factors.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“Why didn’t I decide to drink a glass of juice? The thought never occurred to me. Am I free to do that which does not occur to me to do? Of course not.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will