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“Postal clerks are like priests, doctors, and lawyers. They feel ethically bound to protect privileged information, and they respect their clients’ privacy.”
― The Stranger Beside Me
― The Stranger Beside Me
“You can’t get to know another person while pretending not to see ideology, class, race, faith, identity, or any of the other fraught social categories.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“I take no medications, unless you count melted cheese. (And I do.)”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Happiness is attached to external situations and events and seems to ebb and flow as those circumstances come and go. Joy seems to be constantly tethered to our hearts by spirit and gratitude.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
― The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“We project our individual mental experience into the world, and thereby mistake our mental experience to be the physical world, oblivious to the shaping of perception by our sensory systems, personal histories, goals, and expectations,” Proffitt and co-author Drake Baer later wrote in their book Perception.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Literary Alliance
— 104 members
— last activity Aug 29, 2020 05:26PM
The Literary Alliance is an online book club run by Kylie, Krystle and Brianna. We read one book each month, focusing on minority voices or minority s ...more
Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sarah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
369 books
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61 friends
320 books
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175 friends
566 books
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64 friends
3,418 books
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980 friends
2,151 books
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96 friends
859 books
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52 friends
3,746 books
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1,890 friends
476 books
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138 friends
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