I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.

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"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."

- Joan Didion

Self-awareness

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

- Joan Didion

Self-awareness

"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."

- Joan Didion

Integrity

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

- Joan Didion

Inspiration

"Grief when it comes, it is nothing like we expect it to be."

- Joan Didion

Adversity

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"We are all capable of change, both in our actions and our hearts."

- Beauty and the Beast

Personal Growth

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

Personal Growth

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

Personal Growth

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

Personal Growth