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“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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Sammy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sammy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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69 friends
1,091 books
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145 friends
117 books
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591 books
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674 books
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69 friends
8 books
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380 friends
384 books
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40 friends
1,324 books
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242 friends
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