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“There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.”
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![Ralph Ellison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200336431i/7508._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination -- indeed, everything and anything except me.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
![Madeline Miller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322861610i/176372._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“...I found a new thought in myself. I am embarrassed to tell it, so rudimentary it seems, like an infant’s discovery that her hand is her own. But that is what I was then, an infant.
The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Circe
The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Circe
![Pema Chödrön](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1340967517i/8052._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
![Katherine Arden](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1510754830i/13922215._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Irina, for God’s sake, praying will not keep her warm. Make soup.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
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