“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”
― The Undomestic Goddess
― The Undomestic Goddess
“Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.”
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“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”
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“Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends...”
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“Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.”
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Shawn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shawn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Self help, Suspense, and Spirituality
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