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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Train your brain on what to focus on, what to interpret as important.
We can’t feel equal courage and confidence in all areas of our life
Fear only becomes an opponent when it becomes our focus.
“…become afraid of earthquakes, tall buildings, desks, and donuts.” It’s as if the brain uses hashtags to group things - all these things might be #earthquake to the brain because of the simultaneity of occurrence.
“The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrased, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers--perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
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“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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Pragya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Pragya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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