Never read that book but I have heard a lot of people say that quote helped them.

> "Now I understand", said the last man.

Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End

I first read this in highschool, and it has always stuck with me. There are arguably many interpretations, but I've always viewed it as a poignant reminder of the importance of humility.

I can only find the one by Joseph Knox. Is that it?

The author who benefits you is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been struggling for utterance in you. Oswald Chambers

Someone who can put words onto the "feeling" you know is true, but you can't explain it.

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes its run over, so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over." Fahrenheit 451

I read this as I was writing a letter to my best friend who was preparing to move to Australia.

Seemed very appropriate when "summing up" our friendship.

"Judge yourself entitled to any word or action which is in accord with nature, and do not let any subsequent criticism or persuasion from anyone talk you out of it. No, if it was a good thing to do or say, do not revoke your entitlement. Those others are guided by their own minds and pursue their own impulses. Do not be distracted by any of this, but continue straight ahead, following your own nature and universal nature: these two have one and the same path."

• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

It's astounding that some things have not changed for millennia and exactly what I needed at the time.

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

Perks of Being A Wallflower

That quote changed my life. I left my abusive boyfriend and took a giant leap towards happiness.

Thanks, I will try my best :D

Hard times are indeed hard times and are always a real test, but we indeed become stronger and closer. Mine is not exact from a book, but from one of my favorite book writers. It’s simple, but helped me a lot last year when I started to draw for a living:

“Be pleasant to people Do good work Deliver work on time”

Neil Gaiman

Maps of our Spectacular Bodies had so many beautiful quotes that really hit home when I needed it.

"It's possible to appreciate the beauty of a shard of glass without knowing how the window looks before it was smashed or what the moment of shattering was like."

"I'm going to tend the little garden. It may not be the garden I wanted and exactly the flowers I planted, but it is my little garden and I'm going to do my best."

Sounds like a good challenge for your needs! Have fun with it :)

I‘m sorry! Thank you for mentioning. I would love to be Part of this sub - working on it.

"Even after two years, he was still in thrall with just being at Waseda, with just having a quiet room to read in.

If anything, he wanted a very simple life filled with nature, books, and perhaps a few children. He knew that later in life, he also wanted to be let alone to read and to be quiet."

~Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

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Very slow. Don't have much time at the moment as I am also writing my PhD thesis at the moment. I have the goal to read 12 books this year. But these will most likely be the ones that I already have in my shelf 🤔

How fast are you reading? What is possible for you? I am in a local club and sadly they are alot slower than myself, so I am looking for a little faster pace

I also love fantasy and read in German, but I will barely manage to read 1 book per month :D

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

This is from Frank Herbert's Dune. I found it when I was really torn on moving back home from abroad. It's still and excellent reminder when I'm indecisive. 🙂

There are others, but it would take me a while to list them all. This one just stands out the most I think, cause it's connected to a difficult time in my life.

> There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

I was really struggling with anxiety and depression at the time, and anxiety and depression over my anxiety and depression, and this quote helped contextualize some of those feelings for me. It made me feel better about the fact that I was going through a hard time, like there was something I could learn from the experience, but also served as a reminder that focusing on my negative feelings would just make things worse.

Not saying the quote like cured my depression, but it was very helpful to me in a difficult time.

I just read Elton John’s autobiography and I loved it. He’s had a pretty wild life and lots of issues stemming from a difficult childhood with insanely cold parents. He spent like sixteen years drugged out and it took a long time and almost dying for him to get sober. He finally found a meaningful life and happiness with his now husband at a mature age. So in a way he wasted a lot of time being drugged, unhappy, wracked with anxiety etc, but he also says something like “maybe I had to go through all that to get to where I am now”. Sorry, he said it much more eloquently but you get the point.

Anyway, it spoke to me because while I’ve not led a crazy rockstar life, I’m approaching middle age and I do have some regrets about not living life to the fullest so to speak. I also suffer from anxiety and it has held me back in many ways and caused issues in relationships etc. At the same time, I do feel like there was no other way and I’m slowly getting to know myself and what I need to be happy, but it just wouldn’t have been possible at a younger age because I didn’t really have the emotional support and guidance as a child/adolescent to get there earlier. So I had to go through some shit to get to where I am, where I feel like I’m on the brink of something great because I finally know myself and I’m settling into this peace that comes with age and experience if you’re open to it and open to working on yourself.

Same here. If some mods just screwed up or made a mistake, intentional or not, whatever. I found the whole thing hilarious. I'm just curious why it even happened.

Yeah I have a question, what the hell was up with the ama yesterday?

Hi! I'd recommend short books or graphic novels to get you back into reading because sometimes that satisfaction of finishing something can really help motivation. I hope you're having a good day ❤️

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