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📚 5 books to fall back in love with reading 1️⃣ The Midnight Library ✍️ Matt Haig It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective. 2️⃣ The Alchemist ✍️ Paulo Coelho The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. 3️⃣ The Little Prince ✍️ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. …

Deep work is becoming rare, which is why it is valuable Most of the day now goes to shallow work: messages, meetings, quick replies that feel productive. The work that actually moves a career forward needs long stretches of focus with no interruptions. Protect a few hours a day for it. In a distracted world, the person who can concentrate wins by default. Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport @ebookscafe

📚 5 books to read with your morning coffee A few pages a day. 1️⃣ Meditations ✍️ Marcus Aurelius Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. 2️⃣ The Daily Stoic ✍️ Ryan Holiday We want things to go perfectly, so we tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right...it'd be better to focus on making do with how things actually are... 3️⃣ The Prophet ✍️ Kahlil Gibran You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. 4️⃣ Tao Te …

📚 5 of the best Literary Love Stories Chosen by Lily King. 1️⃣ Persuasion ✍️ Jane Austen Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. 2️⃣ Tess of the d’Urbervilles ✍️ Thomas Hardy My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! 3️⃣ Brooklyn ✍️ Colm Tóibín In the morning, she was not sure that she had slept as much as lived a set of vivid dreams, letting them linger …

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. Rumi @ebookscafe

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. Louis L'Amour @ebookscafe

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Elie Wiesel @ebookscafe

📚 5 Indian novels every reader should know 1️⃣ The God of Small Things ✍️ Arundhati Roy That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. 2️⃣ A Fine Balance ✍️ Rohinton Mistry Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. 3️⃣ Midnight's Children ✍️ Salman Rushdie ‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the ti…

Suffering stops being suffering once it has a meaning Viktor Frankl survived Nazi concentration camps and noticed who held on longest. It was not always the strongest. It was often the ones who still had something to live for: a person, a task, a future. You cannot always choose what happens to you. You can always choose what it means and how you carry it. Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl @ebookscafe

📚 5 books Toni Morrison thought everyone should read From her interviews, lectures, and teaching over five decades. 1️⃣ Things Fall Apart ✍️ Chinua Achebe A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string. 2️⃣ The Bluest Eye ✍️ Toni Morrison Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. 3️⃣ Invisible Man ✍️ Ralph Ellison What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had…

📚 5 books on writing, by people who can write 1️⃣ Bird by Bird ✍️ Anne Lamott Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. 2️⃣ On Writing ✍️ Stephen King The scariest moment is always just before you start. 3️⃣ The Elements of Style ✍️ Strunk and White 4️⃣ Several Short Sentences About Writing ✍️ Verlyn Klinkenborg Writin…

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it... Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight @ebookscafe

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next! Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess @ebookscafe

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen @ebookscafe

📚 5 books every student should read 1️⃣ Mindset ✍️ Carol S. Dweck We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. 2️⃣ Deep Work ✍️ Cal Newport If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are. 3️⃣ Atomic Habits ✍️ James Clear Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will …

Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are Plenty of brilliant people go broke, and plenty of ordinary people quietly build wealth. The difference is behaviour: patience, not panicking, not trying to keep up with people you are trying to impress. Wealth is mostly the money you did not spend. It is invisible by design, which is why so few people notice how it is built. Book: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel @ebookscafe

📚 5 books for when you are lonely 1️⃣ The Lonely City ✍️ Olivia Laing I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished. 2️⃣ Quiet ✍️ Susan Cain There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. 3️⃣ How to Be Alone ✍️ Sara Maitland You are one of those courageous people who w…

📚 5 more books Patrick Bet David recommends Compiled from public recommendations. 1️⃣ Eleven Rings ✍️ Phil Jackson They developed the confidence to bounce back from adversity and tap into a source of inner strength many of them had never experienced before. They faced their demons head-on and didn’t blink. 2️⃣ The Art Of War ✍️ Sun Tzu To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. 3️⃣ The Greatest Sale…