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“Rather than wandering around in problem-solving mode all day, thinking mainly of what you want to fix about yourself or your life, you can pause for a few moments throughout the day to marvel at what’s not broken.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Our successes and failures come and go—they neither define us nor do they determine our worthiness.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“Christians always seemed like bad readers to me, too. They appeared to use the Bible in a way that Marxists would call “vulgar”—that is, common, or, in order to bring the Bible into a conversation to stop the conversation, not deepen it.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith