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we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.
“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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Jessy’s 2025 Year in Books
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