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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.
“Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.”
― A Life in Parts
― A Life in Parts
“He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.”
― Educated
― Educated
“With a whole class marked as enemies of the people, and the chance of an instant profit, friend had turned on friend without hesitation or qualm.”
― The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
― The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
“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.
314 books
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14 friends
375 books
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20 friends
181 books
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33 friends
56 books
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7 friends
0 books
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3 friends
0 books
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5 friends
0 books
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3 friends
577 books
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115 friends
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