992 ratings (4.12 avg)
25 reviews

Melanie

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/mamday

Melanie’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (572)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (1001)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

favorites‎ (155)
lemmed‎ (12)

Stats | More…

Melanie is Currently Reading

Melanie is currently reading

The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)

by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Apr 27, 2012 08:30PM

Melanie’s Quotes

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
― Vivekananda

tags: etc, hinduism, inspirational, religious

285 likes

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

3358 likes

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: good-deeds, goodness, humanity, inspirational, life, light, world

1128 likes

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

433 likes

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: humanity

1247 likes

More of Melanie’s quotes…

Rochester Institute of Technology — 37 members — last activity Jun 07, 2015 10:19AM
Rochester Institute of Technology is a private coeducational university with nine colleges. Founded in 1829, it is located in a suburb of Rochester, N ...more

The Sword and Laser — 21666 members — last activity 33 minutes ago
Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser podcast and monthly book club pick. Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podca ...more

Vaginal Fantasy Book Club — 16205 members — last activity May 20, 2026 05:43AM
Forum for the Vaginal Fantasy Book Club hosted by Felicia Day, Veronica Belmont, Kiala Kazebee and Bonnie Burton. From January 2012 to April 2018, the ...more

Indie Book Club — 1639 members — last activity May 04, 2026 09:59PM
This group was made as a place to discuss books by indie authors and allow them to pitch their books to an interested audience.