Books
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Books
The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect. This is a slow process.
Melody Beattie • The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency (Hazelden Meditation Series)
One of my fondest memories from childhood is my father taking me to a bookstore and spending hours there
Bookstores are magical places because we venture into new aisles and discover genres and books that perhaps we would’ve never discovered otherwise
It was a window to the world pre... See more
Santiago R Santosx.comThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
Harper Lee • To Kill a Mockingbird
proactive people do not demand rights, they live them. Power is not something you demand or deserve, it is something you express.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
“You know,” I said, “I’m asking you about friendships, and you’re answering about ministries. They’re not the same thing.” She had never considered the difference. Her concept of friendship was to find people with needs and throw herself into a relationship with them. She didn’t know how to ask for things for herself.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
“God loves Karel—even more than you do—and if you ask Him, He will give you His love for this man, a love nothing can prevent, nothing destroy. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.”
John Sherrill • The Hiding Place
“books were no longer the sacred touchstones of any culture, any society, and surely not of the one in which he and Paola lived. When had he last heard a reference to a book as part of normal conversation? When had he last heard a character from a book–much less from a classic–used as a measure of good or bad for human behaviour? Harry Potter had... See more