The speech set a pattern that he would follow throughout the war, offering a sober appraisal of facts, tempered with reason for optimism. “It would be foolish to disguise the gravity of the hour,” he said. “It would be still more foolish to
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“Hers was tougher than tough love. It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way to an inch of weakness. It was a love that saw what was best for you ten steps ahead, and didn't care if it hurt like hell in the meantime. When I got hurt, she felt it so deeply, it was as though it were her own affliction. She was guilty only of caring too much. I realize this now, only in retrospect. No one in this would would ever love me as much as my mother, and she would never let me forget it.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Food was how my mother expressed her love. No matter how critical or cruel she could seem—constantly pushing me to meet her intractable expectations—I could always feel her affection radiating from the lunches she packed and the meals she prepared for me just the way I liked them.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“As Peter Drucker observes, “The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it and no marginal utility curve for it. Moreover, time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is gone forever and will never come back. Time is, therefore, always in exceedingly short supply.”
― Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
― Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
“As investor Michael Batnick says, "some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood." We are all victims, in different ways, to that truth.”
― The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel, You Are a Badass at Making Money By Jen Sincero, Money: Know More, Make More, Give More By Rob Moore 3 Books Collection Set
― The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel, You Are a Badass at Making Money By Jen Sincero, Money: Know More, Make More, Give More By Rob Moore 3 Books Collection Set
“We read because without books our world shrinks our empathy thins and our liberty wanes. We read for the same reason that people have read and shared poems or stories for thousands of years, because our eyes are not enough by which to see.”
― Reading for the Love of God
― Reading for the Love of God
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