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“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.”
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“All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering.”
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
Mark’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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