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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”

“When you keep criticizing your kids, they don't stop loving you, They stop loving themselves.”

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

“Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not.”

“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”

“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”

“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”

“The greatest obstacle to living a meaningful life is the sense that one has plenty of time left.”

“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped… We suffer, therefore we think.”

“Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”

“Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.”

“We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually”

“Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”

“In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.”

“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”

“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”