23 Truths for 2023

January 18, 2023
by Yoojin

Community First-Gen School/Life Balance

Happy New Year Chan! I compiled some of my favorite quotes. There’s a good mix of bookmarked lines from cherished books, reminders for when life is a little rough, and encouragements to live a compassionate and sacrificial life.

1. “To me, there was magic in learning.” — Michelle Obama, Becoming
2. “Occupational therapy is more than a job. For many it is a calling. We felt drawn to it.” — Amy Lamb, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA
3. “Do what is good. Advocate for what is right. And fight for what is important.” — Bryan Morales
4. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
6. “It always seems impossible until it is done.” — Nelson Mandela
7. “I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself.” — Michelle Obama, Becoming
8. “We don’t do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we’re fortunate, we never stop.” — Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
9. “The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.” — Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
10. “Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.” — Bob Kerrey
11. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” — Plato
12. “We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up.” — 2 Corinthians 4:8
13. “An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.” — Tara Westover, Educated
14. “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” — Barack Obama
15. “Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.” — Constance Wu
16. “Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.” — Proverbs 17:17
17. “Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don’t be someone else just be yourself.” — Selena Gomez
18. “Living without passion is like being dead.” — Jungkook
19. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” — Eleanor Brownn
20. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” — Princess Diana
21. “It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once — to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.” — Michelle Obama, Becoming
22. “Fall seven times, get up eight.” — Naoki Higashida
23. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy

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