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“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
― Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal
― Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal
“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Disappearing Acts
― Disappearing Acts
“Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.”
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