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Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

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The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

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To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.

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“To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

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“Merleau-Ponty’s central philosophical insight about perception, then, is that it is not just contingently but essentially bodily. Perception is not a private mental event, nor is our own body just one more thing in the world alongside others”
― Anonymous

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“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of despair is in reality a gain rather than a loss. Any experience is to be regarded as a part of one’s assets.”
― Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy

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“A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot, which is fine with me. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as a 'what-if' question...”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1”
― Michael Marmot, The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

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