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“And indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision, for how can a man shake off his habits? What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying innumerable desires that he has created for himself?”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.”
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“When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others, we create the possibility of a new experience, one that often surprises because of how much joy, connection, or relief it yields. Destruction may continue, but humanity shines through.”
― The Trauma of Everyday Life
― The Trauma of Everyday Life
“Memory is so subjective. We all remember in a visceral, emotional way, and so even if we agree on the facts—what was said, what happened where and when—what we take away and store from a moment, what we feel about it, can vary radically.”
― Not My Father's Son
― Not My Father's Son
“The people who hire all these things done for them never know what they lose, for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them, and Meg found so many proofs of this that everything in her small neatness from the kitchen roller to the silver vase on her parlor table was eloquent of home love and tender forethought.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
The Thousander Club
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We are a book club that seeks to encourage the accomplishment of challenging reading goals; to wit, the reading of 1,000 books in our lifetime. We lov ...more
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