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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette

by Victoria Finlay

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

by Sogyal Rinpoche

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“You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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“To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

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“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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“As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

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“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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