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Book cover for Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
How many times in life do we receive the message, implicit or explicit, that what we’ve experienced or what we feel isn’t noteworthy or remarkable? The books that I found in the library, ones that I deeply understood and ones that seemed so ...more
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Katherine Center
“When you don't know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.”
Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

Desmond Tutu
“Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.”
Desmond Tutu

Anne Lamott
“There is almost nothing outside you that will help in any kind of lasting way,”
Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

Alan Bradley
“As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

No ... eight days a week.”
Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Kristin Hannah
“You have a child, so you know. You are my heart, baby girl. You are everything I did right. And I want you to know I would do it all again, every wonderful terrible second of it. I would do years and years of it again for one minute with you.”
Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

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