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I will pursue something that I love—and hopefully become good at it, instead of pursuing something that I’m good at—but don’t love.
“The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.”
― A Life in Parts
― A Life in Parts
“The playwright Carl Zuckmayer wrote that ‘The netherworld had opened its portals and spewed out its basest, most horrid, and filthiest spirits … What was being unleashed here was the revolt of envy; malevolence; bitterness; blind, vicious vengefulness.’15 A British journalist who witnessed it called the procession ‘an indescribable witches’ sabbath’.16”
― The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
― The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
“Instead of focusing on what’s wrong, focus on what’s right – your unique strengths, abilities and passions. It might sound cheesy, but if you feel like you don’t fit in this world, it’s because you’re here to help create a new one.”
― ADHD an A-Z: Figuring it Out Step by Step
― ADHD an A-Z: Figuring it Out Step by Step
“Tolstoy wrote, back in 1894, in The Kingdom of God Is Within You: The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
Jonathan Chambers’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jonathan Chambers’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
384 books
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20 friends
320 books
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14 friends
181 books
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33 friends
57 books
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3 friends
578 books
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115 friends
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