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You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

by Jen Sincero (Goodreads Author)

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant

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“I wanted to learn more about its past but felt this overwhelming need to leave.
I remember hearing somewhere that buildings can hold memories too. Deep in the walls and crevices. If such a thing were true, this building would certainly fit that description.”
― Hadinet Tekie

tags: dark-history, historical, memories-quotes, past-and-present, travel-quotes

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“If you make the choice of reading classic literature every day for a year,
rather than reading the news, by the end of that time period you’ll have a
more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness from the books than from
the media.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

tags: literature, news, reading

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“How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

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“find a partner who is not afraid to grow. if they are ready to notice their patterns, let go of old conditioning, and expand their perspective, then they will be ready to support a vibrant relationship. two people who are working on knowing and loving themselves as individuals will naturally deepen their love and understanding of each other.”
― Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection

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“Humans are so strange in the ways that we are either recovering too quickly from something or holding on to pain forever. There seems to be no middle ground. We bounce back or we wallow. But remembering the hardest moments of grief or loss and letting them be present for you in the good moments is something I’ve found useful and grounding as I age. It feels like a way of remembering that balance does exist. This too. This grief. This joy. Together always intertwined.”
― Ada Limon

tags: balance, bouncing-back, grief, holding-on, joy, letting-go, loss, pain, sorrow, wallowing

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