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“This is especially relevant in light of a recent study of twelve thousand students between fifth and eighth grades that showed those who ate processed and fast foods had the worst skills in math, reading, and science.”
― Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“you’re pretty much free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.”
― Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
― Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
“Whatever choice you make, so long as you make it in the spirit of facing the consequences, the result will be freedom in the only sense that finite humans ever get to enjoy it. Not freedom from limitation, which is something we unfortunately never get to experience, but freedom in limitation.”
― Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
― Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
“When I was sent to rehab for a year and a half at the age of sixteen, I was able to crawl out of the addiction but found myself just anxious to be thought of as the poster child of a “good client” as a substitute for genuine self-worth. Even a very real experience of religious faith was hijacked by my need to fill this hole. After becoming a missionary and attending seminary, I was quietly ashamed to discover that a majority of my motivation for doing so was again to become a person who was seen as good enough by those around me. I realized in my late twenties that I’d been playing out the same pattern over and over without realizing it: looking for a role to fill that would finally make me worthy of kindness and love and belonging. When I viewed getting my life together as a way for trying to atone for the sin of falling apart, I stayed stuck in a shame-fueled cycle of performance, perfectionism, and failure.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
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