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""So many Jonathans. A Plague of literary Jonathans. If you read only the New York Times Book Review, you'd think it was the most common male name in America. Synonymous with talent, greatness. Ambition, vitality.”
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"I admire Franzen for his technicality and his understanding of human nature, but this was a 600 page slog of unlikeable characters. Life's short and it wasn't worth the time."
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“Cut yourself some slack. Remember, one hundred years from now, all new people. —Message tacked to a tree by monks at Wat Umong, a 700-year-old temple in Thailand”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“the gut contains over 500 million neurons, equivalent in size and complexity to a cat’s brain, and is the source of 90 percent of our body’s serotonin production. The gut-brain is primal, forming in the womb before the heart- and head-brains. It”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“You can learn to enjoy calculated risk and uncertainty in exchange for adventure, flexibility, freedom, and opportunity.”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
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“This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts:
Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
There was no one there.”
― Strength to Love
Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
There was no one there.”
― Strength to Love















































