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“As Will Burton says, “pain has a story, a narrative,” and knowing it reveals human complexity which is an invitation to decency. When we try to understand, we discover causes, origins, and consequences about each other and our selves.”
― Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
― Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
“Quantum mechanics and experiments with particles have taught us that the world is a continuous, restless swarming of things, a continuous coming to light and disappearance of ephemeral entities. A set of vibrations, as in the switched-on hippie world of the 1960s. A world of happenings, not of things. The”
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
“This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain.
For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”
― L'ordine del tempo
For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”
― L'ordine del tempo
“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory. Louise Glück, “Nostos”
― The Art of Memoir
The rest is memory. Louise Glück, “Nostos”
― The Art of Memoir
“What you don’t need to do is anticipate every turn in the road between today and the destination. It’s not that plotting the whole journey is undesirable; it’s that it’s impossible. To think that you can plot a turn-by-turn map to the end, like a leader’s version of Mapquest, is almost certainly hubris. When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.”
― Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
― Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Leanne’s 2025 Year in Books
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632 books
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104 books
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151 books
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