Steve Mitchener

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Steve is Currently Reading

Steve Mitchener is currently reading

The Trial

by Franz Kafka

bookshelves: sm-audiobook, modern-period-1901-1945, philosophy, classic, currently-reading

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Feb 17, 2025 07:20AM

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Handbook for Hard Times: A monk's guide to fearless living

by Gelong Thubten

bookshelves: currently-reading, biography-autobiography, non-fiction, philosophy, sm-audiobook

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Feb 10, 2025 01:20AM

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Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

bookshelves: classic, romance, romantic-period-1785-1836, currently-reading

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Steve’s Notes & Highlights

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

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When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time – the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet ...more

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Steve’s Quotes

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress

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“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind

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“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
― Desmond Tutu

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