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Jason is Currently Reading

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Night and Day in Misery (The Shivers Collection, #4)

by Catriona Ward (Goodreads Author)

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NOS4R2

by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author)

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progress: On page 235. "It’s a thick book. Wish I had more time to read it." — Dec 23, 2025 05:43AM

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Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

by Robert A. Caro

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Book cover for The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday

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There are two ways to be wealthy—to get everything you want or to want everything you have. Which is easier right here and right now?

Need this to be a daily reminder.

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Jason’s Quotes

“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“Children see magic because they look for it.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: child, children, imagination, magic, search

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“There are two ways to be wealthy—to get everything you want or to want everything you have. Which is easier right here and right now?”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work

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“But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of Saco.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: artist

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