"People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else."

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Source : Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.643, Simon and Schuster

Jodi Picoult

#People Quotes #Why Me Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .”
“For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.”
“You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.”
“What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.”
“As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith”
“The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.”
“Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.”
“I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.”

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