The great do the impossible—the small do What everyone can
“In truth, though millions have come and gone before us, no one knows how to live or how to make sense of the arduous journey of being alive. It only gets easy when we care for each other and dare to share what we see and perceive in the midst of beauty or pain.”
― You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
― You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
“Rabbi Yeruham Levovitz (1873–1936): “Woe to a person who is unaware of their shortcomings, because they will not know what to work on. But even greater woe to a person who is unaware of their virtues, because they don’t even know what they have to work with.”
― Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
― Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
“Nothing gains more than virtue—nothing destroys more Than forgetting it”
― The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
― The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
“If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body starving for want of bread, it is a hungry soul dying for want of enlightenment.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Every pathological disturbance, every therapeutic effect, finds its ultimate explanation only when it’s possible to designate the specific living cellular elements involved.”
― The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
― The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Philosophy
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Portland Readers
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People who like to read books* in Portland, OR and surrounding areas. * = books that are vegan, yes?
Steve’s 2025 Year in Books
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