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“I don't want to get to the end of my life and look back and realize that the best thing about me was I was organized.”
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
“Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground - you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it's going to get. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Brave doesn't always involve grand gestures, sometimes brave looks like staying when you want to leave, telling the truth when all you want to do is change the subject... sometimes brave looks like boring, and thats totally, absolutely, okay.”
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
“When suffering is sharp and profound, I expect and believe that God will meet me in its midst. But in the struggles of my average day I somehow feel I have a right to be annoyed.”
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“Richard Rohr says the skills that take you through the first half of your life are entirely unhelpful for the second half. To press the point a little bit: those skills I developed that supposedly served me well for the first half, as I inspect them a little more closely, didn’t actually serve me at all. They made me responsible and capable and really, really tired. They made me productive and practical, and inch by inch, year by year, they moved me further and further from the warm, whimsical person I used to be . . . and I missed her. The”
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Leah’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Leah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
73 books
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1 friend
137 books
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15 friends
1,405 books
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194 friends
2,528 books
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176 friends
359 books
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118 friends
689 books
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15 friends
405 books
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24 friends
271 books
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123 friends
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