“We read to know we're not alone.”
― Shadowlands: A Play
― Shadowlands: A Play
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“Emotions are seen as crucial in motivating behavior. People generally do what they feel like doing rather than what reason or logic dictates. It follows that to achieve behavioral change, people need to change the emotions motivating their behavior. Emotion also influences thought. When people feel angry, they think angry thoughts; when they are sad, they recall sad memories. To help people change what they think, therapists must help them change what they feel.”
― Emotion-Focused Therapy
― Emotion-Focused Therapy
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
Barnes and Noble Classic Book Club
— 48 members
— last activity Jul 27, 2020 07:37AM
Books by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, J.D. Salinger, Harper Lee, Charles Darwin, Leo Tolstoy, Louisa May Alcott, James Fenimore Cooper, ...more
White Nights
— 400 members
— last activity Nov 12, 2019 05:45PM
For anyone remotely interested and versed in Russian literature, history and culture. Love Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Nabokov? ...more
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