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

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence

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All men dream: but not equally, Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it ...more

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Steve’s Quotes

“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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“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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“...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: neurosis, new-york-city

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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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