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“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self Reliance
― Self Reliance
“Look at nature: from the growth of a plant, which is the result of a seed, to a collision of clouds, which results in a storm. There is a build up, and things that must take place before a massive result is seen.”
― Who Says You Can’t? YOU DO
― Who Says You Can’t? YOU DO
“The beauty of life is just as real as the ugliness of life. It all depends on which one you choose to see.”
― Who Says You Can’t? YOU DO
― Who Says You Can’t? YOU DO
“If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn't remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.
But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to be meaningful. The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to be meaningful. The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Irene’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Irene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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216 friends
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1 book
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1 book
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55 friends
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62 friends
3 books
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1 book
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189 friends
1 book
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100 friends
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