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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

by Pearl S. Buck

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Oct 17, 2015 12:24AM

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo

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Apr 14, 2015 04:44PM

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حكومة الظل

by Monther Alkabbani (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 20, 2015 05:07AM

“When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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“We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking”
― J. Mark G. Williams, Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

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“Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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“I was like the patient who cannot explain to the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”
― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

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“There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
― Haruki Murakami

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