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Gary L
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“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“If you take antidepressants and they make you better, the psychological attribution is external,” he says. “Patients believe that the reason they get better is because of the drug they take. People believe, ‘I cannot even function without having to rely on this external thing that helps me get through the day.’ “With exercise,” he says, “the attribution is internal: ‘The reason I get better is because I myself try. It’s not that somebody else is giving me a pill, it’s that I am putting in the effort.”
― Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier
― Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Isn’t it crazy that another country is so close, and yet we can never go there because we’re not allowed? But it’s all land. I mean, men created the border, not nature. Nature doesn’t discriminate. Men do. It’s like we’re boxed in, but we do it to ourselves. We imprison each other with lines and boundaries instead of just letting people be free.”
― The Infinite Pieces of Us
― The Infinite Pieces of Us
“The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
―
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
―
Gary’s 2025 Year in Books
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254 books
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405 books
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