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“At your absolute best, you still won’t be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.”
— Karen Salmansohn
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry featured in Rapture & Melancholy; The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I still do
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley
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لا يوجد في هذا العالم طمأنينة أو متكأ يتكئ عليه الإنسان في أحلك أيامه، سوى يقينه أنّ ﷲ مُدَّبر الأمر، وجابر المكسور، واللطيف بأفئدة عباده.
There is no true peace or refuge in this world for a person in their darkest days except for their certainty that Allah is the Ordainer of affairs, the Healer of the broken, and the Gentle One with the hearts of His servants.
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You hold yourself so well, people would never suspect you're going through hell.
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“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
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to the stars through difficulties.
ad astra per aspera
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I doubt everything, even my doubt.

Gustave Flaubert, “Letter to Louise Colet.”
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I cannot live without friendship. Friendship is at root of my being.
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June [originally published 1986]
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no one would ever truly see me or know me again.
Suzanne Scanlon, from "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," published in 2024
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