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Choices, Changes

by Joni Eareckson Tada

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Friendship and Other Poems

by Marguerite de Angeli

bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry

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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

by Kenneth Whyte (Goodreads Author)

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Joanna’s Notes & Highlights

A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean

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We just wanted to survive. That’s all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn’t matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you ...more

Writing Poetry from the Inside Out: Finding Your Voice Through the Craft of Poetry

by Sandford Lyne

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Joanna’s Quotes

“th' music sounded like a friend's voice telling me to take courage.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

tags: courage, music

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“and I particularly loved biographies because they were about people who had to overcome obstacles or prejudices to get ahead. They made me think I could make it when nobody else believed in me, when even I didn’t believe in myself.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.”
― John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence

tags: christianity, god, god-s-plans, providence

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“Why does this person, who doesn’t even speak our language, care so much about us that he is willing to risk his life for us? It moved us both to tears. I said a silent prayer of thanks as we became a part of the night.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

tags: inspirational, lies, power, truth

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