Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Paris
https://www.goodreads.com/paris_reads
Yet while nobody was talking about sex, everybody learned that sex was good, a gift from God and a pleasurable reward so long as enjoyed only within marriage. Sex bound men and women together in a way that nothing else could—“like a
...more
“the question that my book leaves us with: If David beat Goliath—if, in fact, Davids beat Goliaths all the time, if adversity is a great teacher, if resources ultimately become self-defeating—why doesn’t that change the way we make sense of the world?”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“It’s far too easy to make life all about the outside me, the external me, the physical me. We fall into the trap that if we can be healthy, wealthy, popular, productive, and influential, then life will be good. So we throw ourselves into the chase, thinking that internal happiness will come from external success. If we just try hard enough, if we just wait long enough, if we just reach the next level, we will feel at peace.”
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
“The problem isn’t lack of love. It’s impossible expectations. It’s the belief that our souls can find ultimate satisfaction and strength by anchoring themselves to another human soul. But person after person lets us down because their souls are hurting too. We tie ourselves to each other, then we both end up nearly drowned by the storms of life. We squabble and complain, “Why haven’t you saved me yet?” And the other yells back, “I don’t know! I thought you were going to help me!”
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
“what we think of as an advantage and as a disadvantage is not always correct, that we mix the categories up.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
The Poetry Spot
— 643 members
— last activity Jul 31, 2026 01:24AM
This group is for poets, published poets, and lovers of poetry. Do you have a published poetry book? Promote it here! Are you looking for reviews? Are ...more
hopeless romantic society
— 18670 members
— last activity Jul 30, 2026 11:49PM
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* if you like fairytales, taylor swift, poetry, dark academia, old love letters, crowded ballrooms, tragic love stories, the french countrys ...more
A Court of Fantasy and Fiction
— 22568 members
— last activity Jul 31, 2026 01:51AM
This group is for those who dream of other lands. We devour heavy plots with extensive world-building and our libraries are littered with supernatural ...more
A Court of Dreams and Nightmares
— 17129 members
— last activity Jul 03, 2026 10:33AM
Welcome to our Court of Dreams and Nightmares... Here, we talk about anything and everything related to our Queen, Sarah J Maas. If you'd join us ...more
Paris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Paris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,896 books
|
4,643 friends
861 books
|
570 friends
1,853 books
|
176 friends
1,553 books
|
637 friends
18 books
|
4 friends
5,975 books
|
126 friends
1,585 books
|
5,256 friends
574 books
|
172 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Ebooks, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Spirituality, and Nonfiction
Polls voted on by Paris
Lists liked by Paris