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Scottish Witchcraft: The History and Magick of the Picts

by Raymond Buckland

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Oct 17, 2025 07:59AM

“Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

tags: inspirational, minimalism, minimalist, money, money-not-happiness, work-life-balance

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“Do you know how much cheaper we could buy that feed if we’d get into the government program?” “The feed wouldn’t be cheaper. It’d just mean somebody else was helpin’ pay for it, is all.”
― Elmer Kelton, The Time It Never Rained

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“The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

tags: bad-behavior, bad-behaviour, mean, projection, self-distancing, self-hate

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“It was easier to isolate herself than to explain to everyone that she was having a difficult time coming to terms with her new life and shape. The world simply refused to accept the new her, and that made it difficult for her to accept herself”
― Hend Al Qassemi, The Black Book of Arabia

tags: self-consciousness, self-hate

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“That’s what I want for my kids. I want them to love their family, but to feel a deeper sense of pride in who they are as individuals, Nick, not in how much money they have, what their last name is, or how many generations they go back to whatever dynasty. I’m sorry, but I’ve had enough. I’ve had enough of being around all these crazy rich Asians, all these people whose lives revolve around making money, spending money, flaunting money, comparing money, hiding money, controlling others with money, and ruining their lives over money.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

tags: life-lessons, modesty, money-not-happiness, parenting

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