“What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. It’s that precious, fleeting time before we have accumulated enough pride or position to care what other people might think. The same un-self-conscious honesty that enables a three-year-old to splash joyfully in a rain puddle, or tumble laughing in the grass with a puppy, or point out loudly that you have a booger hanging out of your nose, is what is required to enter heaven. It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?”
― Ella Enchanted
― Ella Enchanted
“I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Open Book Club
— 43 members
— last activity Mar 28, 2014 11:12PM
Come join my book club! Everyone!! If you love to READ; come and join/like my facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/brookeopenbookclub
Traveling Book #2
— 32 members
— last activity Sep 24, 2019 10:29AM
For those who did not participate in the first traveling book basically I will be selecting a book soon to travel around the United States along with ...more
Traveling Book #1 2012
— 24 members
— last activity Nov 16, 2015 08:29AM
The idea is to read a book and send it to other people around the world leaving comments and your name/location inside the book. For leaving comments ...more
September 2012: Book for the Month
— 40 members
— last activity Oct 26, 2012 04:00PM
For this month we will be reading, "The Light Between Oceans," by: M.L. Stedman. While reading through the book think of questions you want to ask p ...more
October 2012: book of the month
— 21 members
— last activity Dec 28, 2012 09:25AM
We will be reading and discussing the book, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society". ...more
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