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“What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration.…The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“Do we as a society need people who have emerged from some kind of trauma. And the answer is that we plainly do. There are times and places however when all of us depend on people who have been hardened by their experiences. ... [Dr. Freireich] understood from his own childhood experiences that it is possible to emerge from even the darkest hell healed and restored.”
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“force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
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This is a book club for LDS women (or women respectful of the LDS/Mormon/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints faith) to read and discuss bo ...more
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