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Katy is Currently Reading

Katy Beadle is currently reading

Work Like a Monk: A Buddhist Guide to Embracing What Matters

by Shoukei Matsumoto

bookshelves: currently-reading, business, philosophy, religion

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May 04, 2026 03:44AM

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The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)

by C.S. Lewis

bookshelves: currently-reading, religion

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Apr 21, 2026 02:14AM

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Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, biography-memoir, health, philosophy

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Katy’s Quotes

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46713 likes

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

34097 likes

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: fantasy, humor, scifi

23520 likes

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

6773 likes

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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