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I think that says a lot about a person: how they handle being second best. Do they work on themselves? Or attack the person ahead of them?
Lesson of life
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
― Dune
― Dune
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
Alexios’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexios’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,254 books
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478 friends
372 books
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842 friends
4,165 books
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803 friends
1,278 books
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508 friends
641 books
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60 friends
757 books
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424 friends
18,311 books
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490 friends
2,456 books
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752 friends
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