Cecily

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Cecily’s Quotes

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

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“Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

tags: beast, burden, efficiency, man, work

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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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“The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

tags: sabbath, shabbat, shabbos, soul

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