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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

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In the Great Quiet

by Laura Vogt (Goodreads Author)

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Anna Quindlen puts it more poetically. “Grief,” she writes, is “a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the ...more

First Women

by Kate Andersen Brower

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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.”
― Edward M. Kennedy

tags: freedom, wisdom

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“I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home.”
― Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass: A Memoir

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“This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.”
― Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass: A Memoir

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“We have the choice to love, befriend, recruit, call to arms, associate, and support who we believe in, and more importantly, who, we believe, believes in us. I think that’s what we all want. To believe in and be believed in. We all must earn belief in ourselves first, then for each other. Earn it with you, then earn it with me, then we earn it for we. Travel and humanity have been my greatest educators. They have helped me understand the common denominator of mankind. Values. Engage with yourself then engage with the world. Values travel. And sometimes we get a stamp in our passport just by crossing the street.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

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