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Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

by Pema Chödrön

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May 27, 2025 10:16AM

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The Tigers, They Let Me

by Anis Mojgani (Goodreads Author)

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“No, (slightly grandly) it’s time that time-turning became a thing of the past. ALBUS: You’re quite proud of that phrase, aren’t you? SCORPIUS: Been working on it all day.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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“The pleasure of living carries with it the obligation to die.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

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“Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
― Erin Hanson

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“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of it...”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

tags: despair, hope

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“That fine line between bravery and stupidity is endlessly debated – the difference really doesn’t matter.”
― Bear Grylls, Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest

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