“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
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“Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
Tomyte’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tomyte’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, and Spirituality
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