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Das Licht des Himmels in dir: Märchen und Meditationen über den Sinn des Lebens

by Ronald Schweppe

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The Tree of Yoga (Shambhala Classics)

by B.K.S. Iyengar

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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas

by Carl Safina (Goodreads Author)

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“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel

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“Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked—you can't look at them the same anymore.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: brokenness, honesty, openness, pain, perceptions, transparency

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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

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“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: bravery, fear, overcoming, persistence

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Ein kleiner Buchklub, um hauptsächlich "Erwachsenenbücher" zu lesen, da in vielen anderen Gruppen viele YA-Bücher und Serien gelesen werden. Also, wen ...more

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