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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the…”

— C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Fiction can remind us — and because of the blood-sport nature of politics, we constantly need reminding — that the players in politics are first human beings.”

— John Williams, Adichie on Mrs. Trump

“He'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.”

— Tamera Alexander, Within My Heart

“I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter But my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about Forgiveness Even if you don't love me anymore”

— Don Henley, Don Henley "The Heart Of The Matter" on Austin City Limits

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

— Maya Angelou, 101 Quotes and Sayings From Maya Angelou

“People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom.”

— Kōji Suzuki, Spiral (Ring Trilogy)

“The more I’ve suffered in my life and also read the accounts of the sufferings of others, the more I’ve noticed a pattern. Those who seem to be supremely virtuous and heroic tend to take their sufferings in stride, as if they had no other choice. When they suffer, they suffer fully — they feel the f…”

— Charlie Ambler, You’re Supposed to Suffer

“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than 'Cheer up!' The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying 'cheer up' had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”

— Kōji Suzuki, Spiral

“The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”

— Kōji Suzuki, Birthday (Ring Series, Book 4)

“It’s a weird specific type of human arrogance to think that people can offset the great universal balance of positive and negative. It’s like trying to split an atom; we all know what happens when you do that. There are thousands of books out there trying to convince people that the secret to their…”

— Charlie Ambler, You’re Supposed to Suffer

“Individualized politics have not-so-coincidentally evolved alongside moral decline and a general lack of discipline among individuals. Alongside this shift in the political consciousness of the masses, many of whom have been taught to perceive themselves as entirely singular free agents in the world…”

— Charlie Ambler, The Glass House of Individualism

“The capacity for original and creative thinking is markedly stymied by stray thoughts, obsessive ruminations and other forms of ‘mental load.’ The mind’s natural tendency is to explore and to favor novelty, but when occupied it looks for the most familiar and inevitably least interesting solution.”

— Moshe Bar, Think Less, Think Better

“Many psychologists assume that the mind, left to its own devices, is inclined to follow a well-worn path of familiar associations. But our findings suggest that innovative thinking, not routine ideation, is our default cognitive mode when our minds are clear.”

— Moshe Bar, Think Less, Think Better

“Being alone feels more honest.”

— Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.”

— Freya North, The Turning Point

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”

— Denis Waitley, The Psychology of Winning

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

— Daniel Wallace, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

“If you lose a leg, be the kind of person who becomes determined to live boldly and well, who uses their arms to carry themselves, who competes in the Special Olympics, who carries on. Even if you were at fault for the accident, you are not defined by the loss – you are defined by what you do afterwa…”

— Anonymous, Loss

“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the…”

— Hugh Prather, The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul