People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

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Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), known professionally as Mindy Kaling ( ), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Known for her work on television, she has received a Tony Award and six nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Among other honors, she has also received the...

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There are not many relationships more powerful than that of two women who fall fast and deep into a friendship.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

If someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

—Mindy Kaling in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

—Mindy Kaling in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

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He who is brave is free.

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

—Paulo Coelho

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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

—Oscar Hammerstein II

Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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