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“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

“We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?”
― Shirley Graham Du Bois

“I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back”
― Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave

“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wrong thing, being ignored, getting fired, not being taken seriously, and generally being treated like shit. But it's necessary.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“It was October 2001 and I lived in New York City. I was twenty two. I, like many of my female friends, suffered from a strange combination of post 9/11 anxiety and height of Sex and the City anxiety. They are distinct and unnerving anxieties. The questions that ran through my ming were something like this: 'Should I keep a gas mask in my kitchen? Am I supposed to be able to afford Manolo Blahnik shoes? What is Barneys New York? You're trying to tell me a place called 'Barney's' is fancy?'Where are the fabulous gay friends that I was promised? Gay guys hate me! Is this anthrax or powdered sugar? Help! Help!”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.”
― Mindy Kaling

“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.”
― Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian