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“In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.”
― Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
― Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
“I knew at that moment I had to make a choice... I could submit to everything and live a life of excuses, or I could push myself... I could push myself and make my life good...”
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“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.”
― Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
― Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
“Every time you walk into church, the first thing you see is a man on a cross. He died to save us-not to give us everything we want-to save us. That's what's so hard to understand. It's not about him answering your prayers-it's about you being like him not matter what happens on this Earth. 'Thy will be done.' There will always be sadness and pain.”
― Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
― Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Joni’s 2025 Year in Books
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