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“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
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“We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are”
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“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”
― The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
― The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
The Poor as Folk Bookclub
— 30 members
— last activity Aug 04, 2019 05:29PM
This will be a place to read together and discuss books, both fiction and non-fiction, that deal mainly with poverty and income inequality as the them ...more
Chris’s 2024 Year in Books
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679 books
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215 books
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