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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

by David Goggins (Goodreads Author)

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

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Van’s Quotes

“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: painted, veil

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“As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: birth, death, philosophy

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“One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”
― William Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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“completely different lenses. The racial divide is about the reality each side sees. Each side believes its view is the true reality, and we can’t understand why the other side doesn’t see the same thing and understand our reality.”
― Benjamin Watson, Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

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