Susan Black

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Susan’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1124)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (379)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
fiction‎ (175)
non-fiction‎ (79)
memoir‎ (63)

audio-books‎ (37)
self-help‎ (37)
audio‎ (25)
depression-anxiety‎ (16)
science-nature‎ (12)
business-motivational‎ (11)
adventure‎ (9)

canadian‎ (8)
historical‎ (8)
humour‎ (7)
art-design‎ (6)
spirituality‎ (6)
true-crime‎ (6)
cookbooks‎ (5)

political‎ (5)
finances‎ (2)
childrens‎ (1)
food‎ (1)
home-decor‎ (1)
photography‎ (1)
young-adult‎ (1)

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Susan’s Quotes

“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

tags: john-muir

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“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: biography, life, memory

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“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: wisdom

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“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― Rumi

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“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

tags: joy, rumi, sorrow, transformation

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