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The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

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Feb 09, 2014 05:11AM

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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

by Malcolm Gladwell

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Feb 09, 2014 05:09AM

“1. What in my life, if taken away, would alter my value or identity? 2. What causes an unhealthy change of attitude, personality, or focus when “it” becomes threatened? 3. What is the thing outside of God that you put everything else on hold for? I sat there in a tsunami of convictions. Rather than the arrogant, hard-edged, I’ve-heard-this-stuff-before reaction, I asked God the three questions. And lo and behold, He had some answers. Not surprisingly, I am unhealthily attached to the very things I’ll be giving up during 7: approval, stuff, appearances, money, recognition, control.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

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“Excess has impaired perspective in America; we are the richest people on earth, praying to get richer. We’re tangled in unmanageable debt while feeding the machine, because we feel entitled to more. What does it communicate when half the global population lives on less than $2 a day, and we can’t manage a fulfilling life on twenty-five thousand times that amount? Fifty thousand times that amount?”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

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