In one book, everybody can change. In 300 pages, every character that you've met has become a new character by the end. And so, what might you do in 30 days, let alone 30 years? This is incredible. You get a snapshot of your potential every time you read a novel.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit — yet habit itself is the enemy of wonder, and wonder is the beginning of philosophy.
Will Durant — The Story of Philosophy
It is not given to the world to be content; it is given to us to be content with the world. But there is a deeper discontent which is divine — the dissatisfaction of the possible with the actual.
John Morley — On Compromise
I have a theory that people recommend books that flatter the version of themselves they want to present, not the one they actually finished. I've seen too many friends pretend to be knee-deep into some boring academic text when what they want, and what they'd be better off with, is a trashy beach read.
Sanchita LaMore