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“How is it that a piece of paper, a letter, a photo, a sketch, a painting… is suddenly transformed by placing it in 4 bits of wood beneath a pane of glass? What does it mean that we place permanent boundaries around transient moments? What does it say of humankind that we take such struggle to freeze specific memories? That we devote such energy to capturing, preserving the minute particulars of our lives?”

“For anything to be good, truly good, there must be love in it.

Nothing is what it is supposed to be, if love is not at the core.”

Sexxxxxier than I was expecting ♥️⚾️

This is SO GOOD

“Give me courage to embrace the grace that I will never arrive. At once we understand we don’t deserve it, is when it will provide. Doers climb the wrong mountains well, dreamers climb the right mountains but aren’t at home on hills. Doers help dreamers climb more mountains. Dreamers help doers climb the right ones.”

“The word itself is merely the alphabet in a certain order, but the spirit in which it is spoken, that’s substance.”

“There is no such thing as an atheist, we all believe in something, even if that something is nothing. Just because it’s signed anonymous, doesn’t mean it has no author.”

“Some people hear things, some people don’t. Some people see things, some people won’t.”

“We need skeptics, not cynics. One is discerning, and the other doesn’t believe.”

“Best thing you can do for your marriage, one way to surely get ahead, is get rid of that king size mattress and sleep in a queen size bed.”

“One more step from a lot of us, psshh, that can change the world.”

“So many people are obsessed with how to live longer, instead of how to live better.”

Required reading at work. We’ve been reading chapter by chapter on our own time and discussing at our weekly project management meetings. I love the fact we work thru books together - but didn’t get as much out of this book as the last we read. Many points brought up are inherently how ppl negotiate, naturally.

12 years later… rereading. Already hitting different.

Omg the dark tower tie-in!!! 🤩