Category Archives: Books
Own Path
A reminder to not compare your beginning to others’ middle… Or vice versa.
We each have our own path, our own journey to make.
Veronika Decides to Die
Decidedly true.
The Choice
“Just remember,” she says, “no one can take away from you what you’ve put in your mind.”
The Beauty of Ignoring…
Trying to wrap my head around this one.
Maybe not being so fixated on some things can help it naturally emerge better…
Death’s Words
From Death in The Book Thief.
Because humans, and the being human, may always a conundrum that even the powerful Death cannot figure out.
Goodbye Days
It’s been a while since I read a book that had me reaching for the tissue box so much. I think the last one was “The Fault in Our Stars“.
The Last Lecture
“Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.”
At Home At 20F
Because when you turn your back on the world for a while, you can take refuge in a world of your own.
And that gives you more strength to face the world again.
The Antidote
“Failure is everywhere. It’s just that most of the time we would rather avoid confronting that fact…
Our efforts not to think about failure leave us with a severely distorted understanding of what it takes to be successful. An openness to the emotional experience of failure can be a stepping-stone to a much richer kind of happiness than can be achieved by focusing only on success.”
The phrase “failure is the mother of success” didn’t come from our predecessors for nothing – they knew the meaning and value of failure, something our society seems to be rediscovering – thankfully.
Along Life's Path 