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“I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.”
“Here are six key lessons for life: Family time is finite—cherish it. Children time is precious—be present. Friend time is limited—prioritize the real friends. Partner time is meaningful—never settle. Coworker time is significant—find energy. Alone time is abundant—love yourself.”
― The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
― The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
“None of us live in an objective world, but instead in a subjective world that we ourselves have given meaning to. The world you see is different from the one I see, and it’s impossible to share your world with anyone else.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“Teresa of Avila: “Christ has no body now on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassionately on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.”12”
― The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality
― The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality
“Close your eyes and imagine your ideal day at eighty years old (or one hundred, in the case of the ninety-year-old!). Vividly imagine it. What are you doing? Who are you with? Where are you? How do you feel? The exercise forces you to begin with the ideal future end in mind—it establishes a personal definition of a successful life that can be used to reverse-engineer the actions in the present to achieve that desired end.”
― The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
― The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
“The challenge in seeing a person, therefore, is to adopt the kind of double vision I mentioned in the chapter on hard conversations. It means stepping back to appreciate the power of group culture and how it is formed over generations and then poured into a person. But it also means stepping close and perceiving each individual person in the midst of their lifelong project of crafting their own life and their own point of view, often in defiance of their group’s consciousness. The trick is to hold these two perspectives together at the same time.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Joshua L Miller’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Joshua L Miller’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
159 books
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24 friends
2,000 books
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667 friends
272 books
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83 friends
500 books
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21 friends
124 books
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59 friends
530 books
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22 friends
51 books
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90 friends
273 books
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227 friends
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