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“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
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“Whoever expresses truth expresses God, the Word, and utters therefore a word of God.”
― The Church
― The Church
“The life of study is austere and imposes grave obligations. It pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay that few are capable of. The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the heart, if truth is to give itself to us. #Truth serves only its slaves.”
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“Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not... maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine.”
― Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
― Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
“When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.”
― The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
― The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
Melanee’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Melanee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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70 books
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138 books
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428 books
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209 books
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302 books
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127 friends
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