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“We get inundated with so many messages about belief, about what is true and what is not, from both our families and our culture, and it’s crucial that every single one of us come to our own well-excavated understanding.”
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
“My Favorite Kid President Quotes “Create something that will make the world more awesome.” “Treat everybody like it’s their birthday.” “If you can’t think of anything nice to say, you’re not thinking hard enough.” “Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.” “Give the world a reason to dance!” “Us humans are capable of war and sadness and other terrible stuff. But also CUPCAKES!” “Love changes everything so fill the world with it!” “Grown-ups who dream are the best kinds of grown-ups.” “Don’t be IN a party. BE a party.” And my personal favorite, “Mail someone a corn dog.”
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
“The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it.”
― The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
― The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you—and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
― The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
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