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“To develop consistent happiness, you must train yourself to desire only what you can always have, and fear only what you can always avoid.”
― Matthew Van Natta, The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

“Your mind is yours—and yours alone. If you focus on healthy thoughts and develop balanced opinions about your situation, you will cultivate positive emotions and find lasting enthusiasm to live your best life. You will see negativity for what it is: a waste of energy. You will learn to stop allowing fear, anger, and other anxieties to grow. You will discover not only that you can weather challenges, but you often find them enjoyable.”
― Matthew Van Natta, The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

“The moment we stop listening to diverse opinions is also when we stop learning. Because the truth is we don’t learn much from sameness and monotony. We usually learn from differences.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Unlike what nationalist demagogues claim, belonging is not a once-and-for-all condition, a static identity tattooed on our skin; it is a constant self-examination and dynamic revision of where we are, who we are, and where we want to be.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division