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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
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“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“When I think how sometimes people can be brave enough to overcome any fear, any hardship, it gives me a feeling I can hardly describe. To charge right at the things that are painful and difficult, break through to the other side, and take pleasure in that - don't you think that's truly fantastic? The greater the suffering, the greater the joy in overcoming it.”
― How Do You Live?
― How Do You Live?
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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Barbara’s 2024 Year in Books
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