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“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” —SENECA, ON PROVIDENCE, 4.3”
― The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
― The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

“I smile. "You were always so good at not covering up."
Penny's smile is sad and a little off. "It's the antidepressants. They've obliterated whatever filters I have left.”
― This is Where I Leave You
Penny's smile is sad and a little off. "It's the antidepressants. They've obliterated whatever filters I have left.”
― This is Where I Leave You

“I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead.”
― On the Road
― On the Road

“The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand.”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time

“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we’re not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time

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