始め

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”

“Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you. Know your worth, even if they don’t.”

“It was all she ever wanted: to dwell in peace, without the shadow of her past hunting her.”

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

“Take care of your loved ones, particularly when they are doing everything in their power to push you away. A broken heart, like a wounded beast, will often lash out at those it is nearest, but that does not mean they don’t need you.”

“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”

“If you think about it, the inside of your own mind is the only thing you can be sure of. The most radical conclusion to draw from this would be that your mind is the only thing that exists. This view is called solipsism. It is a very lonely view, and not too many people have held it.”

“Be so good that you don’t have to think about the algorithm.”

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

“Sometimes, it’s the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.”

“If you’re struggling and your people are just sitting there watching you struggle, they’re not your people.”

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”

“People think they know you. They think they know how you’re handling a situation. But the truth is no one knows. No one knows what happens after you leave them, when you’re lying in bed or sitting over your breakfast alone and all you want to do is cry or scream. They don’t know what’s going on inside your head—the mind-numbing cocktail of anger and sadness and guilt. This isn’t their fault. They just don’t know. And so they pretend and they say you’re doing great when you’re really not. And this makes everyone feel better. Everybody but you.”

“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.”

“Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.”

“We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding.”