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Jamie Johnson

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Jamie’s Quotes

“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

tags: education, growth, inspirational, life, personal-growth

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“Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories—stories that almost always cast them as alone and unworthy of love and belonging.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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“He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: education, inspirational, politics

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“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Tara Westover, Educated

tags: inspirational

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“An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness; it is a ministry of presence. These moments remind us that we are not alone in our darkness and that our broken heart is connected to every heart that has known pain since the beginning of time.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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