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Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

by Rose Hackman

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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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The Luminaries

by Eleanor Catton

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“It is not ‘Have I got a chance?’ It is more often: ‘Have I seen my chance?”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: hope, idries-shah, inspiration, motivation, reflections, spiritual, wisdom

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“I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?

Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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“They say eyes clear with age,
As dew clarifies air
To sharpen evenings,
As if time put an edge
Round the last shape of things
To show them there;
The many-levelled trees,
The long soft tides of grass
Wrinkling away the gold
Wind-ridden waves- all these,
They say, come back to focus
As we grow old.

- Long Sight In Age”
― Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

tags: nature, poetry

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“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: joy, praise

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“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: patience, taoism, understand

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