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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
My heart was skipping in my throat. I knew that anger. How had I managed to find it in Ohio?
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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)
But while I may look impassive, I am frantically paddling my feet underwater, always overcompensating to hide my devouring feelings of inadequacy.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Feelings are also a warning signal telling us that we need to do something. For example, if you are angry at someone for something she did, it is your responsibility to go to her and tell her you are angry and why. If you think that your anger is her problem and that she needs to fix it, you may wait years. And your anger may turn to bitterness. If
... See moreJohn Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
Sharing the books you read with others can be an intimate invitation into your brain — what you are drawn to, what you think about, and the life experiences that shaped those interests and thoughts. Even a book chosen based solemnly on aesthetics or its cultural context is still a choice that says something about its owner, or at the very least,... See more
“Dear Jesus, I thank You that we must come with empty hands. I thank You that You have done all—all—on the cross, and that all we need in life or death is to be sure of this.”
John Sherrill • The Hiding Place
In his 1905 essay “On Reading,” Marcel Proust puts it nicely: “With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends—books—it’s because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: ‘What did they think of us?’—‘Did we... See more