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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh @ebookscafe

📚 5 psychology books that read like novels 1️⃣ Thinking, Fast and Slow ✍️ Daniel Kahneman

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

2️⃣ Man's Search for Meaning ✍️ Viktor Frankl

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

3️⃣ Influence ✍️ Robert B. Cialdini

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

4️⃣ Quiet ✍️ Susan Cain

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

5️⃣ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ✍️ Oliver Sacks @ebookscafe

You do not rise to the level of your goals

Everyone who loses a race had the same goal as the winner. Goals set the direction, but they do not decide the result. What decides the result is your system: the small things you repeat every day without thinking about them. Fix the system and the goal tends to take care of itself. Make the good habit easy and the bad one hard.

Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear @ebookscafe

If you want to dramatically improve your quality of life, learn to recover your attention quickly after something steals it. Social media arguments, stressful thoughts, minor inconveniences. Most of it is noise that steals hours to days of enjoyment. Breathe and let it go. ~ Dan Koe @ebookscafe

The gods of the earth and sea Sought through nature to find this tree, But their search was all in vain: There grows one in the human Brain. William Blake, The Human Abstract ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

📚 5 of the best Thomas Hardy books

Chosen by Mark Chutter.

1️⃣ The Mayor of Casterbridge ✍️ Thomas Hardy

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

2️⃣ Far from the Madding Crowd ✍️ Thomas Hardy

In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

3️⃣ The Return of the Native ✍️ Thomas Hardy 4️⃣ Tess of the d’Urbervilles ✍️ Thomas Hardy

My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances!

5️⃣ The Woodlanders ✍️ Thomas Hardy

It was snowing with a fine-flaked desultoriness just sufficient to make the woodland grey, without ever achieving whiteness.

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If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note Box Set ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number. P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

📚 5 books: Best Ocean Novels 10-14 Yr Olds

Chosen by Helen Scales.

1️⃣ What a Shell Can Tell ✍️ Helen Scales & Sonia Pulido (illustrator) 2️⃣ Between Sea and Sky ✍️ Nicola Penfold 3️⃣ The Song That Sings Us ✍️ Nicola Davies 4️⃣ Blueback ✍️ Tim Winton 5️⃣ Nation ✍️ Terry Pratchett

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

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Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words. CLAMP, xxxHOLiC, Vol. 7 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Amane tried to tear his eyes away and bring his soaring heart back down to earth, but in the end, he kept staring at her until she noticed and hid her face in a cushion. Saekisan, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 2 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Sam: Boast not of what thou wouldst have done, but do What then thou would'st, thou seest it in thy hand. John Milton, Samson Agonistes ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

🖋 The page nobody reads. Every book opens with a dedication. Most of us turn straight past it. This one is worth stopping for.

To John Francis McCarthy

The Road Cormac McCarthy His son, who was six when the book was written. The novel is about a father walking his boy through the end of the world. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Simper James! simper James, leave your fair Killie dames, There’s a holier chase in your view: I’ll lay on your head, that the pack you’ll soon lead, For puppies like you there’s but few, Simper James! 7 For puppies like you there’s but few. Robert Burns, The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm: A Ballad ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖