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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up by James Hollis

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we are, paradoxically, obliged to thank our symptoms, for they catch our attention, compel seriousness, and offer profound clues

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“It was as if his despair had given rise to a sense of invincibility; he felt that everything extraneous and soft had been burned off of him and he was left as an exposed steel core, indestructible and yet pliant, able to withstand anything.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“life generally doesn’t have any meaning—unless you strive, every God-given day, to provide it with some.”
― Joël Dicker, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

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“For as long as I'm here, I will strike while the iron is hot. I will make all my dreams come true.”
― Yuval Abramovitz, The List: Shout Out Your Dreams!

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“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

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