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“He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”
“And it was an effort to help her answer the most important questions at the outset of any journey toward freedom: What am I doing now? Is it working? Is it bringing me closer to my goals, or farther away?”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Each moment is a choice. No matter how frustrating or boring or constraining or painful or oppressive our experience, we can always choose how we respond. And I finally begin to understand that I, too, have a choice. This realization will change my life.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“In my yearning to belong, in my fear of being swallowed up by the past, I worked very hard to keep my pain hidden. I hadn’t yet discovered that my silence and my desire for acceptance, both founded in fear, were ways of running away from myself—that in choosing not to face the past and myself directly, decades after my literal imprisonment had ended, I was still choosing not to be free. I had my secret, and my secret had me.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Andres’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Andres’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2 books
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4 friends
0 books
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3 friends
156 books
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99 friends
2 books
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57 friends
1 book
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9 friends
510 books
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80 friends
448 books
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166 friends
10 books
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4 friends
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