Serafima R

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Serafima is Currently Reading

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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)

by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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Dune (Dune, #1)

by Frank Herbert

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in ...more

Serafima’s Quotes

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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“The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We’re dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

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“We had survived the prison, the plain and the loss of hope, but the women had discovered that survival is no more than putting off the moment of death. They continued to eat, drink and sleep, while in the shadows, surrender, silent capitulation and death lurked.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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“But such criticism and mockery are largely beside the point. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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“The sooner we become less impressed with our life, our accomplishments, our career, our relationships, the prospects in front of us—the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with these things—the sooner we get better at them. We must be more than just happy to be here.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

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