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Whether it is losing weight, building a business, writing a book, winning a championship, or achieving any other goal, we put pressure on ourselves to make some earth-shattering improvement that everyone will talk about.
“Let ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them.”
― Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
― Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
“Where in our upbringing, our schooling, our career are we explicitly taught to value, to enjoy, even to love the plateau, the long stretch of diligent effort with no seeming progress?”
― Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
― Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
“Long after the firefly had disappeared, the trail of its light remained inside me, its pale, faint glow hovering on and on in the thick darkness behind my eyelids like a lost soul. More than once I tried stretching my hand out in that darkness. My fingers touched nothing. The faint glow remained, just beyond their grasp.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“If I were to dedicate my life to science, whatever form that might take, it would be by the grace of the people I’d met during my lowest and most confusing days. More and more, I was feeling something I hadn’t in a long time: I was grateful.”
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
“He liked Atlanta. Unlike Chicago, the pace of everyday life was human here. Apparently there was time in this city. Time to roll a cigarette just so, time to examine vegetables with the eye of a diamond cutter. And time for old men to gather outside a storefront and do nothing but watch their dreams go by: the gorgeous cars of criminals and the hip-sway of women. Time, too, to instruct one another, pray for one another, and chastise children in the pews of a hundred churches.”
― Home
― Home
Rajesh’s 2025 Year in Books
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