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Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
—Brené Brown

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
—John Burroughs

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love—first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
—Albert Camus

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
—Marcel Proust

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul—then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness!
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, who wrote this hours after nearly being executed by a firing squad

I never can feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its beauty.
—John Keats

According to the psychologist Robert Feldman, who has spent more than four decades studying the phenomenon, we lie, on average, three times during a routine ten-minute conversation with a stranger or casual acquaintance.
—Maria Konnikova

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
—Flannery O'Connor

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
—Novalis

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
—José Saramago