Do Not Love Half Lovers

Do not love half loversDo not entertain half friendsDo not indulge in works of the half talentedDo not live half a life and do not die a half deathIf you choose silence, then be silentWhen you speak, do so until you are finishedDo not silence yourself to say somethingAnd do not speak to be silentIf

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

3 “I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult. Always having to prove that there’s more to you, wanting people to see beneath the surface, to be loved for yourself, and not your stunning body, sparkling eyes or thick, lustrous hair.”

Grit by Angela Duckworth

Fortunate indeed are those who have a top-level goal so consequential to the world that it imbues everything they do, no matter how small or tedious, with significance. Angela Duckworth Interest → Practice → Purpose → Hope “Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can

Disappointment With God by Philip Yancey

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse. Philip Yancey Is God unfair? Why doesn’t he consistently punish evil people and reward good people? Why do awful things happen to people good and bad, with no discernible pattern? Is God silent? If he is so concerned about our doing his will,

Protected: Atomic Habits by James Clear

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Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer

“Israel has developed an unusual specialty: an ability not only to cope with but to leverage all sorts of adversity . . . The essence of the Start-up Nation story is a country’s ability to turn adversity into a renewable source of creative energy . . .”

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

A Deep and Detailed Summary by Kyle Kowalski Book Summary on NJlifehacks Study Guide on LitCharts (I was too engrossed in the book that I did not get to take down notes so massive thanks to the above resources, which will be useful when refreshers are needed.)

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

And all of these jobs were physically demanding, some of them even damaging if performed month after month. Now, I am an unusually fit person, with years of weight lifting and aerobics behind me, but I learned something that no one ever mentioned in the gym: that a lot of what we experience as strength

What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey

1 | The Last Best Word “Perhaps I keep circling back to grace because it is one grand theological word that has not spoiled. I call it ‘the last best word’ because every English usage I can find retains some of the glory of the original.” The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery

Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

PART 1 — The Logic of Failure 2 | United Airlines 173 “That is one of the ways that closed loops perpetuate: when people don’t interrogate errors, they sometimes don’t even know they have made one.” “Practice is not a substitute for learning from real-world failure, it is complementary to it.” 3 | The Paradox