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Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

by Shaun Usher (Goodreads Author)

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Everybody Loves a Good Drought

by Palagummi Sainath

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“We are called to plant these seeds in our world: to dare to tell every living soul that they already matter, that their seemingly mundane lives are a slowly unfolding mystery, that their small choices and acts of generosity are vitally important.”
― Heather Havrilesky, What If This Were Enough?: Essays

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“But we should also aim to create a self and a life and an artistic vision that aren’t an escape from ordinary life, but a way of rendering ordinary life for people of every color, shape, size, and background more magical to them. In order to do that, we have to see that every human is divine. We have to train ourselves to see that with our own eyes. It will fuel us, once we see it. The ordinary people around us, the angry ones and the indifferent ones, the good ones and the bad ones, will start to glow and shimmer.”
― Heather Havrilesky, What If This Were Enough?: Essays

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“The more I have, The more I realize that all that matters is the small discoveries, the little interactions, the improvised, messy, glued-together moments that lie at the centre of our happiness. Everything else is just a distraction.”
― Heather Havrilesky, What If This Were Enough?: Essays

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“To study the self is to forget the self. Mi casa, su casa.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

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“More than anything else, we have to imagine a different kind of life, a different way of living. We have to reject the shiny, shallow future that will never come, and locate ourselves in the current, flawed moment. Despite what we've been taught, we are neither eternally blessed nor eternally damned. We are blessed and damned and everything in between. Instead of toggling between victory and defeat, we have to learnt to live in the middle, in the gray area, where a real life can unfold in its own time. We have to breathe in reality instead of distracting ourselves around the clock. We have to open our eyes and our hearts to each other. We have to connect with what already is, who we already are, what we already have.”
― Heather Havrilesky, What If This Were Enough?: Essays

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