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Ellen is Currently Reading

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The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Aug 20, 2026 10:33PM

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Ellen said: " Currently finished Part 1…interesting look into a time and place and a playing on ideologies and cultural themes. "

Aug 18, 2026 06:10AM · see review

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Other Minds

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Ellen’s Quotes

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

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“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
― L.R. Knost, Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages

tags: childhood, children, inspirational-quotes, motherhood, parenting

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“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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