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Half His Age

by Jennette McCurdy

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Feb 21, 2026 04:39AM

“You don’t climb the second mountain the way you climb the first mountain. You conquer your first mountain. You identify the summit, and you claw your way toward it. You are conquered by your second mountain. You surrender to some summons, and you do everything necessary to answer the call and address the problem or injustice that is in front of you. On the first mountain you tend to be ambitious, strategic, and independent. On the second mountain you tend to be relational, intimate, and relentless.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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“In his essay “Schopenhauer as Educator,” Nietzsche wrote that the way to discover what you were put on earth for is to go back into your past, list the times you felt most fulfilled, and then see if you can draw a line through them.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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