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Jason is Currently Reading

Jason Murphy is currently reading

Burn the Plans

by Tyler Jones (Goodreads Author)

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A Calendar of Wisdom

by Leo Tolstoy

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Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

by Lisa Cron (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, non-fiction, writing

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Book cover for Nothing's Changed But My Change

Nothing's Changed But My Change by Jeremy Schoemaker

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Having money isn’t everything, but not having it is.

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Jason’s Quotes

“Here is how to guarantee you have a good day: do good things.”
― 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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“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: 1985, california, lifestyle, society

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“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service

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