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“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
That is real freedom.
That is being taught how to think.
The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the "rat race" — the constant, gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
That is real freedom.
That is being taught how to think.
The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the "rat race" — the constant, gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
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“Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”
― Living on Luck
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”
― Living on Luck
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
167 books
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158 friends
482 books
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24 friends
50 books
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18 friends
12 books
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34 friends
228 books
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226 friends
12 books
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7 friends
0 books
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24 friends
1 book
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9 friends
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