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Self-discipline is the way to transform your weaknesses into strengths.
“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“No social stability without individual stability.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."
..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”
― Brave New World
..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”
― Brave New World
Val’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Val’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Food, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Self help, and Spirituality
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