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All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

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The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

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The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

by Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)

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“Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

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“If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.”
― Marcus Aurelius

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“No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on.’ That you, living in the here and now, are the one who determines your own life.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

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“There's a big chance the people in you environment don't strive for the same things as you. Many people live a timid life. People who don't want anything from life and who spend their time watching TV.
Don't give your time to those people. You might become one of them.”
― Deepstash

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“If one really has confidence in oneself, one doesn’t feel the need to boast. It’s because one’s feeling of inferiority is strong that one boasts. One feels the need to flaunt one’s superiority all the more. There’s the fear that if one doesn’t do that, not a single person will accept one “the way I am.” This is a full-blown superiority complex.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

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