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“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you're doing? You're chasing something that doesn't exist. You're making everyone around you miserable. You're making yourself miserable. Perfection? There's about five times a year you wake up perfect, when you can't lose to anybody, but it's not those five times a year that make a tennis player. Or a human being, for that matter. It's the other times. It's all about your head, man.”
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“Ten days of six hours of sleep a night was all it took to become as impaired in performance as going without sleep for twenty-four hours straight.”
― Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
― Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“...caffeine is a stimulant drug. Caffeine is also the only addictive substance that we readily give to our children and teens.”
― Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
― Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“Even when it was unfair and heartbreaking, dark and full of the unknown, life was still worth living.
Because rewards could be found among the chores. Little pieces of enjoyment that would come to mean something. Darkness always gave way to the light if given time, and while some heartbreaks may never completely heal, living allowed there to be space for new sources of happiness and pleasure.
Life was worth living even when it was full of unfairness and injustice. When the heart felt light and when the chest was too tight to breathe.
Because death was final.
The absence of choice.
And life was a collection of new beginnings.
Full of unending choices.”
― A Fire in the Flesh
Because rewards could be found among the chores. Little pieces of enjoyment that would come to mean something. Darkness always gave way to the light if given time, and while some heartbreaks may never completely heal, living allowed there to be space for new sources of happiness and pleasure.
Life was worth living even when it was full of unfairness and injustice. When the heart felt light and when the chest was too tight to breathe.
Because death was final.
The absence of choice.
And life was a collection of new beginnings.
Full of unending choices.”
― A Fire in the Flesh
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Alina’s 2025 Year in Books
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