Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
They spend more time rationalizing their behavior than improving it. Even when caught in a lie, they express no remorse or embarrassment.
“Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
―
―
“People are far more revealing by the questions they ask than the answer they give. To get closer to understanding what is really on someone’s mind, answer their questions briefly so they ask follow-up questions. By their third question you’ll get a glimpse of their biggest fear or desire on the topic.”
― Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
― Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
“You want to do it?"
"I might. If you offer me enough."
"Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul..."
"That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul—would you understand why that's much harder?”
― The Fountainhead
"I might. If you offer me enough."
"Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul..."
"That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul—would you understand why that's much harder?”
― The Fountainhead
“We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.”
― Gehen
― Gehen
Harika ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Harika ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Harika
Lists liked by Harika






























