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“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“I couldn’t have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.”
― Paulo Coelho

“beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man’s concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

“One has to decide whether one’s fears or one’s hopes are what should matter most.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End