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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not."
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"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."
"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
"Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location."
"The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself, self-love."
"At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't."
"I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got."
"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
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"She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand."
"We're the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don't need to say so; it's just true. Sometimes it seems like we're so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones. We settle into types- Bridget the athlete, Lena the beauty, Tibby the rebel, and me, Carmen, the...what? The one with the bad temper. But the one who cares the most. The one who cares that we stick together."
"She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly."
"She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy."
"Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have."
"She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it."
"Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this before. You have to be brave, okay? You have to go and tell Kostos how you feel. I swear to God if you don't, you will regret it for the rest of your cowardly life.''What if he doesn't like me back?''That's what I mean about being brave."
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