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“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”
― Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
― Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Toward a Psychology of Being
― Toward a Psychology of Being
“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― Daniel Deronda
― Daniel Deronda
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
Keith’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Keith’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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29 friends
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