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“Your impermanence is a thing you should meditate on every day: There is nothing more sobering, nor scary, nor a faster-way-to-cut-the-negative-bullshit than to remember that you do not have forever. What defines your life, when it’s all said and done, is how much you influence other people’s lives, oftentimes just through your daily interactions and the courage with which you live your own. That’s what people remember. That’s what you will be known for when you’re no longer around to define yourself.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“Make a list of all the imperfect people you’ve known in your life who have had love. Who have had romantic partners and best friends and jobs you could only ever dream of. Make a list of all the people who are conventionally unattractive and spiritually adrift and imperfect and all the things each one of them had despite being that way. Make it your own personal proof that you do not need to be perfect to be good enough.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“A friend once told me that the secret to finding love was not to actually look for it, but to heal the things that were preventing you from seeing and receiving it. I think the biggest one of all is, “What will having this love fix?”
What will having this person next to me make me feel better about? What do I need them to tell me? What do I need them to prove? Who do I need them to look great in front of? What purpose do they serve for my ego?”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
What will having this person next to me make me feel better about? What do I need them to tell me? What do I need them to prove? Who do I need them to look great in front of? What purpose do they serve for my ego?”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“Being in love with somebody that you only used to know is like falling in love with a book (which sounds like a dumb example but people really do fall in love with them). The point is: You can love it all you want, but it’s a story that runs parallel to yours. At the end of the day it’s static. It’s memory. It’s a sentence and you can’t change it. It ends how it ends. It says what it says.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Iris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Iris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Christian, Classics, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Spirituality, Travel, and Young-adult
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