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Manuel is Currently Reading

Manuel Sanchez is currently reading

The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)

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Manuel’s Quotes

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

tags: inspirational

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“And so accept everything that happens, even if it is disagreeable, because it leads to this, to the health of the universe and to the prosperity and felicity of Zeus”
― Marcus Aurelius

tags: inspirational-quotes

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“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”
― Lisa Scottoline , Every Fifteen Minutes

tags: humor, medicine

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“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: nietzsche

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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