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The benefits of working among daily life are invaluable, improving how you see and practicing all of the things I wrote about in the beginning of this book—perspective, symmetry, light, and shadow.
“You’ve just got to stay out of the outcomes, Lucas. It’s not that you walked Connor out here to meet me that’s weighing you down. It’s the fact that you’re holding yourself responsible for whether it works out or not. You can take your brother to some meetings without turning yourself inside out. Trouble is, you take on the responsibility of being the one who sees to it that he recovers. Want to know why that stuff takes so much out of you? Easy. It’s all stuff that’s out of your control. You’re trying to change things that’re not within your control to change. And whenever you try to do something that’s impossible to do, you’re going to find yourself a little on the tired side. Make sense?” “Yeah,” I said. “It does.”
― Stay
― Stay
“He found people respond to crises in two ways. Some get to work fixing the problem. Others, proving the problem wasn’t their fault. Reacher liked the first kind. Rutherford seemed like the first kind. It was nice to see someone not dumping on him for a change.”
― The Sentinel
― The Sentinel
“I prefer cinnamon twists over scones because they’re easier to eat while I’m reading. That’s my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”
― The Secret, Book, & Scone Society
― The Secret, Book, & Scone Society
“Creative people have more ideas and interests than any one person can do in a lifetime, and we accumulate the paraphernalia to prove it. (p. 54.)”
― 10 Time Management Choices That Can Change Your Life
― 10 Time Management Choices That Can Change Your Life
“It’s been running for years. On social media. Conspiracy theories. Attempts to undermine the mainstream media.”
― The Sentinel
― The Sentinel
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