“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
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“I’m the only one left holding a grudge. They say it’s good to let your grudges go, but I don’t know, I’m quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
― Big Little Lies
― Big Little Lies
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
― A Guide to Happiness
― A Guide to Happiness
“he found himself pondering what it must be like not to belong to someone. What would it feel like to be “free”? It must not be all that good or Massa Lea, like most whites, wouldn’t hate free blacks so much. But then he remembered what a free black woman who had sold him some white lightning in Greensboro had told him once. “Every one us free show y’all plantation niggers livin’ proof dat jes’ bein’ a nigger don’ mean you have to be no slave. Yo’ massa don’ never want you thinkin’ nothin’ ’bout dat.” During”
― Roots: The Saga of an American Family
― Roots: The Saga of an American Family
“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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