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The family is the social unit God invented to fill up the world with representatives of his loving character. It’s a place for nurturing and developing babies until they’re mature enough to go out of the family as adults and to multiply his image in other surroundings.
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
Speaking on this subject, Amiri Baraka offers an invaluable quote: “All cultures learn from each other. The problem is that if the Beatles tell me that they learned everything they know from Blind Willie, I want to know why Blind Willie is still running an elevator in Jackson, Mississippi.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“Reading is like a software update for your brain.
Whenever you learn a new concept or idea, the ‘software' improves. You download new features and fix old bugs.
In this way, reading a good book can give you a new way to view your life experiences. Your past is fixed, but your interpretation of it can change depending on the software you use to... See more
Whenever you learn a new concept or idea, the ‘software' improves. You download new features and fix old bugs.
In this way, reading a good book can give you a new way to view your life experiences. Your past is fixed, but your interpretation of it can change depending on the software you use to... See more
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (January 23, 2020) | James Clear
“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
He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
The Art of Noticing for Writers: From The Art of Noticing (A Vintage Short)
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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
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