Books had rescued me when i most needed saving.. Books were smarter than me and words inspired me.. to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because "given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?" In the end, Thoreau, Whitman, Hafiz, and a dozen other writers put me up to the task of seeing if I dared to "live a life worth living. Dee Williams
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  1. Being an entrepreneur is a mental job... It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

  2. The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

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  4. I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.

  5. It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks.

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