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When you came screaming onto this planet you were truly a bundle of joy, a wide-eyed creature incapable of doing anything but being in the moment. You had no idea that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it. When you
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“Here is the amazing thing: the caterpillar and the butterfly have the exact same DNA. They are the same organism but are receiving and responding to a different organizing signal.”
― Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here
― Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
― The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
― The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You know why it’s hard to be happy—it’s because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.”
― The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
― The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
― Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”
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Phyllis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Phyllis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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