Bek B

Add friend

Bek’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (343)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (383)
did-not-finish‎ (2)

2021-popsugar-challenge‎ (42)
dream-bookshelf‎ (35)
books-i-d-like-to-re-read‎ (21)
for-s‎ (16)

i-can-t-stop-talking-about‎ (14)
i-love‎ (10)
to-read-in-2020‎ (9)
best-kid-s-books‎ (8)

books-that-changed-me‎ (4)
current-faves‎ (4)
books-i-didn-t-get-to-finish‎ (2)
childhood-favourites‎ (1)

Stats | More…

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: absolution, brooding, guilt, morality, remorse, repentance, wallowing, wrongdoing

889 likes

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

656 likes

“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: happiness-salvation

140 likes

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

2868 likes

“And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: achievement, self-confidence

175 likes

More of Bek’s quotes…