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Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words (Chai Masala Club, #1)

by Annika Sharma (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 04, 2026 11:53PM

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Faith, Hope and Carnage

by Nick Cave

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Yuthika said: " Edit 2025: I have finished reading this book again, and I feel like restarting it immediately. This is how much it means to me.

"For me, vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth, whereas being invulnerable means being shut down, rig Edit 2025: I have finished reading this book again, and I feel like restarting it immediately. This is how much it means to me.

"For me, vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth, whereas being invulnerable means being shut down, rigid, small. My experience of creating music and writing songs is finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You’re being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. There’s certainly a vulnerability to that, and an incredible freedom. […] I think to be truly vulnerable is to exist adjacent to collapse or obliteration. In that place we can feel extraordinarily alive and receptive to all sorts of things, creatively and spiritually. It can be perversely a point of advantage, not disadvantage as one might think. It is a nuanced place that feels both dangerous and teeming with potential. It is the place where the big shifts can happen. The more time you spend there, the less worried you become of how you will be perceived or judged, and that is ultimately where the freedom is."

Edit 2024: I LOVE this book so much.

“[T]he luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.”

Review 2023: What a fantastic book. I saw this book in a bookshop in Milán over my holidays but could not find a "perfect" copy.. And then as luck would have it, I had the privilege of listening to the audiobook. I marvelled at the depth and insights of Nick Cave. One could not have asked for a better interviewer than Sean O'Hagan. I am truly impressed. I'll carry this thought with me: the real potential to do nothing. And I loved Nick Cave's description of hope: "Hope is optimism with a broken heart." It led me to thinking, even a broken heart can be full, right?

Full of beauty is this world. ...more "

Sep 24, 2025 10:41PM · see review

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Stillness Is the Key

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 06, 2026 09:08AM

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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― Frank Zappa

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring