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“Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics”
― Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
― Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
“You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.”
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― Yes Please
“Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.”
― Why Not Me?
― Why Not Me?
“Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. Loving an animal, a horse, cat, or dog, was always a romantic tragedy. It meant loving something that would die before you. Like that movie with Ali McGraw. There was no future, just the affection of the present moment. You didn't expect a big payoff, someday.”
― Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
― Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
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For fans of superheroes and sequential art, who also love novels and non-fiction. This is a monthly book club, with infinite possibilities. While ther ...more
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