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Book cover for Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne

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“When your child seems to deserve affection least, that’s when they need it most.”

Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

by Sarah Clarkson

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“I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth.”
― Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

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“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials”
― Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

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“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
― William Butler Yeats

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“When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she has abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society’s most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

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“When someone once asked me just what it was that my parents did that made me believe in God, without even thinking I said, “I think it was French toast on Saturday mornings and coffee and Celtic music and discussions and candlelight in the evenings . . .” Because in those moments I tasted and saw the goodness of God in a way I couldn’t ignore.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

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