“Where we get in trouble with money is when we don’t admit what we want is respect. Or that what we want is a sense of contributing something important to the world.”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them,…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important p…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”— Ken Kesey, goodreads.com