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I felt both peace and war, hope and despair, fear and strength. And all of it taught me is it really can be both. I realized that without God, I’d only feel war-torn, in despair, and fearful. But when I brought all of my emotions to God, he
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“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
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“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: It’s a myth and a trap and a hamster wheel that will run you to death. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: “So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun... The most evil trick about perfectionism, though, is that it disguises itself as a virtue.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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Jaime’s 2025 Year in Books
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