children, as they grow, learn about the world and their place in it by testing what they know and experimenting with what they don’t.
“There is always one person in a group who has more courage than the rest. It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart.”
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“Look at her, because I think she is disappearing.”
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“paradoxical intention” on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Every era casts illness in its own image. Society, like the ultimate psychosomatic patient, matches its medical afflictions to its psychological crises; when a disease touches such a visceral chord, it is often because that chord is already resonating.”
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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