Category: book
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Another point of view
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his (or her) point of view,” said Harper Lee. Lee, who died recently, was the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Plodding along with books
In a letter to Oprah Winfrey in 2006, Harper Lee defended her love of books. “In an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me,” she wrote. Lee, who died recently, was the author of To Kill…
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Exercise can help cure addictions
If you can’t eat just one cookie or one potato chip—and that one cookie or one chip can lead to a day or two of eating too, too much, you may battle a food addiction. I do. Dr. John Ratey has a chapter in his book Spark—The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain…
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Exercise makes me feel better
Even when I think I’d rather roll over and sleep some more instead of getting up and taking my morning walk, I know from experience that I’ll feel better after I my dog and I get some exercise. Dr. John Ratey affirms my conclusion and explains exactly why exercise makes changes in my brain that…
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How to have a good day
Caroline Webb has suggestions for making the best of bad situations in her book How to Have a Good Day. * When you disagree with people, try repeating their side of the argument back to them affirmatively. They will feel appreciative even if they know they’re not winning the argument. * If you procrastinate, promise…
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The constant judgment in the world
When the hospital nurse asked Lucy Barton’s mother if she wanted a “gossip” magazine to read, she declined. And, although Lucy took the magazine, she hid it—just in case the doctor came in. “So, I was like my mother. We did not want to be judged by what we read,” comments Lucy in Elizabeth Strout’s…
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More wisdom from Cheryl Strayed
“This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities,” says Cheryl Strayed in her new book Brave Enough. “You’ve earned the right to grow.”
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It’s not too late
“Time is not running out,” says Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, in her new book Brave Enough. “Your life is here and now. And the moment has arrived at which you’re finally ready to change.”
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Wisdom from Cheryl Strayed
“Inhabit the beauty that lives in your beastly body and strive to see the beauty in all the other beasts,” says Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, in her new book Brave Enough. I couldn’t resist buying the small green book filled with quotes from Strayed. I knew it would be good inspiration for the new…
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Why Susan Anthony was fired
During an economic depression in the late 1830s, Susan B. Anthony, who campaigned for women’s right to vote and was arrested in 1872 for trying to vote, quit school and found a job as a teacher. She was 19 when she was fired from her teaching job, says Mary Kay Carson in her book Why…