Amanda

Amanda’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (699)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1446)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
homeschool‎ (488)
read-to-kids‎ (453)
read-multiple-times‎ (149)
book-club‎ (91)

heroes-2023-2024‎ (80)
20th-century-2015-16‎ (77)
truth-goodness-beauty-2012‎ (64)
defenders-2013-14‎ (62)
a-wayfinder-s-voyage-2017-2018‎ (55)
national-treasure-2020-21‎ (49)
hh-2019-20‎ (41)
read-in-my-youth‎ (40)

feast-2024-2025‎ (37)
great-expedition-society‎ (36)
mississippi-2016-17‎ (36)
travel‎ (34)
raising-boys‎ (31)
night-at-the-museum-2022-23‎ (29)
renaissance-minds‎ (28)
champions-2014-15‎ (25)

mom-read-to-me‎ (24)
cookbooks‎ (20)
for-boys‎ (19)
half-read-may-not-ever-finish‎ (13)
for-college-course‎ (8)
read-with-mark‎ (6)
faith-and-inspiration‎ (5)

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Amanda’s Quotes

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: guidance, self-knowledge, self-trust

410 likes

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
― Alexander Pope

203 likes

“Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.”
― Sheri Dew

80 likes

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech

916 likes

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

1639 likes

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