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“The Japanese have a saying that for every new food we try, we gain seven days of life. I may be immortal by now.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers — all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there’s only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.”
― Roger Von Oech, A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative

“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
― Malcolm Forbes

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
― Bob Carter

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, none are exactly the same. I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea