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“Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others' opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladies. Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what YOU will change. And then get started.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Opportunity did not knock until I built the door.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“The Big Five: 1. Epiphany. I am as happy alone as I am in love. 2. I don’t have to please anyone to find my worth. 3. A job is not just a job; it’s a creative expression of the journey of the soul. 4. It’s not where you live; it’s how you live when you get there. 5. I am a person of the world, not just my small corner of it, and I own all she is.”
― Adriana Trigiani, The View From Lake Como