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 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
“And a shift in perspective can change a life. Hope can create possibility. Options are always available to us if we stand back and look at things differently.”
― A Life in Parts
― A Life in Parts
“If people don’t enhance your life, you have to get rid of them.”
― A Life in Parts
― A Life in Parts
“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
“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
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