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Since taking a few scuba diving lessons, I've been really inspired to read this book! Incidentally, I used to love the submarine ride (RIP) at Disneyland. ...more "
American society now leaned on schools to care for children in a way that would have bewildered Americans of an earlier age, as that other institution, the family, was failing at the job. “The sub-rosa conversation was that families weren’t
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“Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom. Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated — it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.”
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“All these young French poets, like the rest of the people, lived for the joy of living in its sublimest form, the creative joy in work.”
― The World of Yesterday
― The World of Yesterday
“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
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“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― The Persian Boy
― The Persian Boy
“He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone.”
― Option B
― Option B
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