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“Define success as something achievable. For myself I define success like this: Did I try? Did I give my time? Did I never give up? All of which are very easy to do. Do not put success in things or outcomes.”
― Patch Adams, Gesundheit! Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy

“I believe passion and persistence are incompatible with, in fact dramatically damaged by, cynicism, apathy, discouragement, and whining (cynicism and whining probably being my two biggest pet peeves). If you are going to be a social crusader, you must eliminate these things from your vocabulary and behavior. They are pernicious. They all kill the spirit of effort. When you use the language of these qualities, it results in an inertia so strong that it creates a strangling atmosphere of powerlessness.”
― Patch Adams, Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy

“Service is an action word, a perfect antidote to boredom, loneliness, alienation, and fear. Service can impart the gift of inner peace. Service is the physical expression of thanks to the world, an apt way to appreciate the miracle of life.”
― Patch Adams, Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy

“May we all experience that kind of acceptance and love.”
― Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

“I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?”
― Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

“Be careful not to lose yourself in trying to help him find his way. Trust that the path he is on is exactly where he's supposed to be.”
― Rachelle Dekker, The Calling

“The second jealousy is this: I am jealous that my mother had wanted more children. Wasn't I enough? When I walk in her moccasins, though, I say, "If I were my mother, I might want more children--not because I don't love my Salamanca, but because I love her so much. I want more of these.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“A solitary soul can do little. But together...what lasting beauty we create.”
― Julie Klassen, The Sisters of Sea View

“Of course the disease was not your fault, " Mr. Hornbeam said more softly. "But we choose how we respond to life's misfortunes.”
― Julie Klassen, The Sisters of Sea View

“I find we often worry too much about how people see us. When the truth is, everyone else is more worried about how we view them.”
― Julie Klassen, The Sisters of Sea View

“You see, the truth is like a jewel of many facets. I will always choose the facet that highlights the good in a particular situation.”
― Tzemah Yoreh, So Compassionate it Hurts: My Life as a Rabbi on the Spectrum

“And that was my mistake
I didn't kill the snake
I gave the snake a break
Unbiblical”
― Leonard Cohen, The Flame:Poems and Selections From Notebooks

“...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“But then, that was the nature of time. You could never return to the same point, just a facsimile of it.”
― Yume Kitasei

“What was it about mothers, that they could know you so well? And not know you at all.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“You're a funny girl, Josie. Always wanting justice. Forgiveness is better, ma chére.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, The Golden Doves