The cost of doing business

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[thoughtkick]

“I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.”

— Orson Scott Card

[nixscriptum]

[thehopefulquotes]

“You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you are.”

— Thomas F. Shubnell

[lovethi5]

[mournfulroses]

Jean-Paul Sartre, from a play featured in "No Exit and Three Other Plays," originally published in 1944

[thoughtkick]

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[thoughtkick]

“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961

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The Sopranos, 1999-2007.

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The Sopranos, 1999-2007.

[tana-the-dreamchaser]

[mournfulroses]

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "Room of the Mind: Poems" originally published in 2021

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in The Complete Notebooks of Albert Camus

[04k96]

[perfectfeelings]

“It’s never too late to start being who you want to be”

— Unknown

[joli--coeur]

reminder: what’s yours will be yours. no need to rush. no need to feel anxious. all good things take time. and when it does come, your heart will be so grateful. give it time. rest your mind. and enjoy the present moments.

[petaltexturedskies]

Ingeborg Bachmann, from "Eyes to Wonder" in Three Paths to the Lake