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Paula is Currently Reading

Paula is currently reading

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

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Jun 08, 2025 11:52AM

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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli

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Jun 08, 2025 11:51AM

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From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

by Virginia Hanlon Grohl

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Paula said: " I'm not enjoying this very much. I thought it would have more insight into the difficulties-- I would assume it was difficult-- in allowing your child to enter into such an unpredictable and dangerous world, particularly in Dave's case, because he wa ...more "

Aug 13, 2023 10:53AM · see review

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Paula’s Quotes

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

2023 likes

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: people, truth

37 likes

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

2635 likes

“He it is still and yet it is not he any longer.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In the Harbor

tags: adversity, aspirations, poetry

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