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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 "
“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
“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
“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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“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
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