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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”
― Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“When one is burying a dream, one might as well plant another dream.”
― Glennon Melton

“God approaches us in the disguise of other people.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Life is hard—not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“When her pain is fresh and new, let her have it. Don't try to take it away. Forgive yourself for not having that power. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred. they are part of each person's journey. All we can do is offer relief from this fear: I am all alone. That's the one fear you can alleviate.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It’s saying, You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.” I”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this.… Ready?” “Ready.” “ ‘At least I tried.’ ” Lena”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

“In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites

“Grief orbits the heart. Some days the circle is greater. Those are the good days. You have room to move and dance and breathe. Some days the circle is tighter. Those are the hard ones.”
― Steven Rowley, The Guncle