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1. Strength in What Remains From chyatt in What are the best lines from the book you’re reading now? I just finished reading Tracy Kidder’s “Strength in What Remains” What a powerful and TIMELY message! Here am feeling sorry for myself – lost my job, 3 deaths in my immediate family – and then I picked up this book. I recommend it to anyone who thinks he/she cannot overcome life’s adversities. The last sentence of the epilogue says it all, ‘Let’s put this tragedy behind us, because remembering is not going to benefit anyone.’“ |
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2. The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild LIife From Annthenewnurse in What are the best lines from the book you’re reading now? I just finished a book that was loaned to me. Bodacious Book of Succulence by SARK, and my favorite line is ‘I wish for this book to catapult you out of bed and smack into the center of one of your dreams, or lure you back to bed, where you will lie helplessly laughing at all your past mistakes and frozen moments.‘” |
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3. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) From Luann in What are the best lines from the book you’re reading now? I’m re-reading an old favorite too – Pride and Prejudice. The first line always makes me laugh: ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.‘ It begs to be rewritten from the perspective of today’s vibrant woman, doesn’t it? “A single woman age 50 in possession of a good fortune must be in want of…” What? I haven’t decided yet! |
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4. The Year I Saved My (downsized) Soul From Fran Young in What are the best lines from the book you’re reading now? I’m in a utter reading frenzy right now, while also traveling in Europe, but one passage that stands out to me from my several recent books is from Carol Orsborn’s book, The Year I Saved My (downsized) Soul: ‘Instantly, I understood what the cards meant. Dan was letting me know that he had utter faith that regardless of the battering my spirit had endured, the show would go on. It didn’t matter to him… He knew that once my feet got going, adventures were sure to unfold. There would be tears, laughter, suspense, pathos.’“ |
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5. The Brutal Telling From JanMH in What are the best lines from the book you’re reading now? Just finished “The Brutal Telling” by Louise Penney… and if you like mysteries this one if for you. Haven’t accomplished anything this morning – just had to finish it. ‘My favorite quote from Thoreau is also from Walden,’ said Gamache. ‘A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.’“ |
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6. The Joy Luck Club From Margot in What are the best lines from the book you’re reading now? ‘And then we get to the room in the back, which was once shared by the three Hsu girls. We were all childhood friends. And now they’ve all grown and married and I’m here to play in their room again. Except for the smell of camphor, it feels the same – as if Rose, Ruth, and Janice might soon walk in with their hair rolled up in big orange-juice cans and plop down on their identical narrow beds.‘ Am I the only one remembering those orange-juice-can rollers? Those sentences are from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I’m re-reading this old favorite.” |
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7. Jesus for the Non-Religious From ilovepaws in What are the best lines from the book you’re reading now? ‘Prejudice may serve your need to survive, but it will never serve your need to be whole, to be fully human. If you cannot escape these debilitating aspects of your frightened humanity and move beyond the boundaries of fear that cause you to build yourself up by tearing another down, you can never be fully human.’” from Jesus for the Non-Religious” by Bishop John S. Spong |
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Public television used to have a chair yoga program. Most seniors groups also have chair yoga. Search the net for a dvd, should be there.
Very beautiful. I meditate when I get home from work. I get up at 5:30 and just can't get motivated to get up any earlier. When I wake up in the middle of the night, I immediately go to prayer. It's comforting. Teresa
Push
From Sapphire
Whwn Precious Jones took a simply phrase “you must push” and applied to her life to
motivate herself….Theresa Holmam Ca
From the book CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Tolle comes my favorite quote:
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
From my favorite book, A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Tolle, comes this quote:
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
This is where the book’s title comes from.
I love this quote from Albert Camus, but I would like to have the exact source:
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
I agree with you; this has always been one of my most inspiring quotes and it has been proved true in my own experience…..surviving the challenges in this place. Thank you for the reminder!
“Wind and weather had sculpted stone into thousands of time-fissured faces, until the barren had become, not a place, but a Presence. Using the wind off the sea for a voice, grassy uplands hummed songs of a Stone Age past.”,
from Finn McCool,by Morgan Llywelyn,
Isn’t that a bone-shivering description? Isn’t it poetry?
From The Bridges of Madison County, “I have one thing to say, one thing only, I’ll never say it another time, to anyone, and I ask you to remember it: In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.” Robert James Waller
Do you believe in a one true love?
Dang. I’d forgotten that tremendously profound line. It’s a signpost; it’s that important. Thank you.
I am reading Little Bee by Chris Cleave. This inexpensive little book is beautifully written. I had trouble picking out a favorite line, and I am only about 1/3 through he book. Little Bee, the Nigerean refugee main character, says “Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.” To me, that line is sweet and ironic.