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You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a yellow sun

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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Louisa May Alcott

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Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.

Nikita Gill

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else.

Sade Andria Zabala

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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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I was writing novels about someone that couldn’t even form me into a sentence.

Orion Carloto

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If you're not going to swim deep with me then get out of my waters.

Bridgett Devoue

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She is proud, she is struggling with herself; but kind, charming, generous.

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

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She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

Gyula Krúdy

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Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Mary Rakow

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You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try accepting yourself and see what happens.

Louise Hay

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She began to do as she liked and to feel as she liked. She had resolved never to take another step backward.

Kate Chopin

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I carry silent baggage. I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Herta Müller

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I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot