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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
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“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
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“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”
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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
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Marta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
5 books
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10 friends
341 books
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11 friends
221 books
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16 friends
80 books
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3 friends
493 books
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25 friends
131 books
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10 friends
8,433 books
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836 friends
196 books
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26 friends
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Self help, Spirituality, and Travel
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