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“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“Perfectionism makes essential projects hard to start, self-doubt makes them hard to finish, and trying to do too much, too fast, makes it hard to sustain momentum.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today. Do not do more this week than you can completely recover from this week.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most