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Joys Of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning

by Gautam Baid (Goodreads Author)

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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: abuse, depression, social-norms

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“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: becoming, end, evolving, journey

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“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, dark-secrets, knowing-oneself, not-knowing, repression, secrets, subconscious, suppression, survivors, trauma-memory, traumatized, unconscious

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“It's the unanswered questions that makes it worth getting up in the morning.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

tags: getting-up, unanswered-questions

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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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