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“we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.”
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.”
― Coin Locker Babies
― Coin Locker Babies
“By earnest self-examination strive to realize, and not merely hold as a theory, that evil is a passing phase, a self-created shadow; that all your pains, sorrows and misfortunes have come to you by a process of undeviating and absolutely perfect law; have come to you because you deserve and require them, and that by first enduring, and then understanding them, you may be made stronger, wiser, nobler.”
― The Path of Prosperity
― The Path of Prosperity
Kieran’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Kieran’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
90 books
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6 friends
467 books
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8 friends
270 books
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23 friends
268 books
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15 friends
2,422 books
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45 friends
29 books
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2 friends
8 books
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3 friends
8 books
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1 friend
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