Wisdom
She tended to think of thirty-three as the age of burgeoning wisdom. It was the age at which she had begun, finally, to know herself.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
Critics are the guardians of the soul…The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do its good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy and embitter.
Beth Moore
As the retired general Jim Mattis and Bing West once wrote, “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you
the person living the longest life loses the same thing as the person living the shortest life. They both lose the present moment, which is all they have. You can't really lose what you don't have.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Denial makes a poor lifestyle but a pleasant lunch.
Beth Moore
Paradise Lost by John Milton
All things are small, quickly changing, and short-lived
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
This way of thinking is, of course, not only countercultural but downright heretical in our own era of blame-thirsty opinions ossified into identities — because understanding is a dynamic thing, evolving as it integrates and relates new information, it is the antithesis to the stasis of opinion and an antidote to it, a way of remembering that we... See more