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#1

“That's very important about stories. They touch something that is human in us and is probably unchanging. Perhaps this is why the important knowledge is passed through stories. It's what holds a culture together. Culture has a story, and every person in it participates in that story. They world is made up of stories; it's not made up of facts.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

tags: culture, stories, words

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#2

“Anything could be endured, she had discovered, if she could only package the time into discrete little packets. She imagined taking the minutes, each one like a pellet, and wrapping them up - one minute, five minutes, fifteen, thirty. Once she had managed to survive a full hour, she could put the packets of time into a box, tie it with string, and push it down a conveyor belt. Just one more minute, one more hour, one more day.”
― Lynne Kutsukake, The Translation of Love

tags: survival, time

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#3

“It was possible, I found, to both mourn a loss and yet be grateful it happened.”
― Jennifer S. Brown, Modern Girls

tags: grief, loss, mourning

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#4

“Your behavior inside your home is the real indicator of your character. Not in the workplace, not in school. Sure, it's nice to look good when you leave your home, and make a bella figure. But in terms of your identity, the most important thing is who you are with your parents, with your children, with your cousins. Th most important thing is how you behave with he people who really matter.”
― Katherine Wilson, Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law

tags: behavior, character, family

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#5

“The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.”
― Dan Gasby, Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's

tags: alzheimers, caregiver, comfort

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#6

“The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.”
― Ron Fournier, Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations

tags: child, children, gift

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#7

“The way we envision the stars is by imagining they're attached to a giant invisible sphere surrounding the earth. It is a total fiction, really - just a construction we came up with to help us get our heads around the complexity of it all ... The ecliptic, put simply is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. But since we all live here on earth, we observe the sun to be moving along this plane instead. Why? Because what would be the point of looking at things from the perspective of the sun? That's no use to anyone ... Ergo, it's an imaginary circle, as it's only a part of our human construction of the cosmos.”
― Benjamin Wood, The Ecliptic

tags: ecliptic, imaginary, sun

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#8

“Just don't leave anything unsaid to the people who matter. It only takes a few words to change your world.”
― James Hannah, The A to Z of You and Me

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#9

“Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

tags: eyes, good, philosophy

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#10

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

tags: book-club, book-club-fiction, humor, inspiration, inspirational-quote

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#11

“All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the view that weaknesses are a bit like heavy pieces of furniture, and based on this you must learn to clean around them. To maintain the illusion.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

tags: fiction, inspirational, novels

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#12

“We have to take flight. It's not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound?”
― Elizabeth J. Church, The Atomic Weight of Love

tags: earthbound, flight, freedom

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#13

“Take one Naive Girl. Bring to room temperature in the Big City. Add three cups Academia. If in one cup Encouragement. Fold in two drop Love. Sprinkle with one teaspoon Adoration. Mix thoroughly. Spoon carefully into greased Pan of Matrimony. Bake in Desert Heat for 25. Test doneness with Careless Toothpick. Let cool on Wire Rack of Inertia. Serve with generous dollops of Benign Neglect.”
― Elizabeth J. Church, The Atomic Weight of Love

tags: girl, life-changing, woman

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#14

“History repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. And the genome repeats itself, in part because history does. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome. And human history has, in turn, selected genomes that carry these impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires. This self-fulfilling circle of logic is responsible for some of the most magnificent and evocative qualities in our species, but also some of the most reprehensible. It is far too much to ask ourselves to escape the orbit of this logic, but recognizing its inherent circularity, and being skeptical of its overreach, might protect the week from the will of the strong, and the 'mutant' from being annihilated by the 'normal'.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

tags: genome, history, science

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#15

“It is tempting to write the history of technology through products: the wheel; the microscope; the airplane; the Internet. But it is more illuminating to write the history of technology through transitions: linear motion to circular motion; visual space to subvisual space; motion on land to motion on air; physical connectivity to virtual connectivity.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

tags: history, technology, transition

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#16

“When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships ... most of the time, friendships end in a different way - slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don't really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.”
― Jennifer Close, The Hopefuls

tags: ending, friend, friendship

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#17

“Not one of us knows what we can do, until one fine day, we stand up and do it.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

tags: ability, capability, stand-up

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#18

“...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

tags: acceptance, coney-island, tolerance

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#19

“Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

tags: book, books, writer

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#20

“It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

tags: book, book-lovers, books

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#21

“When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

tags: book, books, reading

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#22

“Maybe the human brain is an object beyond the reach of metaphor, for the simple reason that it is the only object capable of creating metaphors to describe itself. There really is nothing else like it. The human brain creates the human mind, and then the human mind tries to underhand the human brain, however long it takes and whatever the cost.”
― Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

tags: brain, mind, neuroscience

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#23

“Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us.”
― Ali Smith, Public Library and Other Stories

tags: library, public-libraries, public-library

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#24

“Words were stories in themselves.”
― Ali Smith, Public Library and Other Stories

tags: language, story, words

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#25

“The best thinking says 'the self' is a fiction (I have a piece about that), yet it's a fiction that we all believe, our most intimate experience. Maybe it's nothing more than our tendency to repeat. Maybe we repeat because when we do, we recognize the behavior and the familiarity is comforting. So the self is just the consolation of our tendencies.”
― Richard Greenberg, Rules for Others to Live By: Comments and Self-Contradictions

tags: experiences, habits, self

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#26

“What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

tags: differences, puzzle, world

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#27

“And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy

tags: fear, good-intentions, intentions

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#28

“Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?”
― Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy

tags: acceptance, change, choice

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#29

“Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

tags: memories, time

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#30

“I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race. And that includes you, professor, listening to this testimony. As it includes myself.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

tags: human, human-race, humanity

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