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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“All children can be taught to sing if they begin their personal vocal discovery at a very early age and if they are taught by someone who not only believes all children can sing but also has the pedagogical skills to teach them to sing. Children must never, ever, be told that they cannot sing or be told to just mouth the words.”
― Sound Advice: Becoming a Better Children's Choir Conductor
― Sound Advice: Becoming a Better Children's Choir Conductor
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
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“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
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“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
Lorie’s 2025 Year in Books
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9 books
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299 books
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1 book
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42 books
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114 books
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2 books
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74 friends
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