Laura Bazal

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I can still see us so clearly: twelve women dressed in our blues, our dry hands folded or spread or drumming, and the Book Lady at the head of the table, sensible button-up blouse patterned with smiley green bees, helping us discuss a book ...more
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Caroline Leaf
“New thoughts are formed over twenty-one days, and these new thoughts are formed into habits after sixty-three days.”
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Caroline Leaf
“It’s in the quiet stillness of the moment, when we think deeply about our thinking, that we can draw on our courage to go into the depths of our nonconscious mind and embrace the chaos to find the message of truth. Your mind loves this. Your brain loves this. You will love the peace this eventually brings.”
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal
“I think it is a strength, feeling tenderly about the nuts and bolts and tools of one’s trade. But maybe it’s not so much a strength, more like an indicator—strength implies that I had some role in it, and I don’t believe I did; I was simply born with a fondness for letters and language, and was predisposed to enjoy playing around with them and it. There is this anecdote from Annie Dillard: A painter was asked why he became a painter. He replied, Because I love the smell of paint.”
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Caroline Leaf
“In fact, when it comes to exercise, your nervous system changes first, followed by your muscles.”
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Caroline Leaf
“This is not “self-help.” This is a scientifically proven and clinically applied sustainable mind-management program that has been tried, tested, and proven over thirty-plus years, a way of thinking that makes the best of mindfulness and self-help.”
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