1. “If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.”
2. “People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
3. “Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
4. “Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.”
5. “The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.”
6. “No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.”
7. “Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
8. “Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you’ll never make it to the top.”
9. “Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.”
10. “Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.”
