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read in August 2019
Ada Tarcau said:
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Beautiful poetical memoir of how the daily practice of thanksgiving can be the path to joy by giving freedom from resentment, anger and anxiety, healing grief, teaching humility, transforming a controlling life into a life of glad service, opening on
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Jo, dear, we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them. You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it.” “Yours, Mother? Why, you are never
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“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
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“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
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“And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
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