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10. “A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.” 11. “We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves.
The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, as well as a national bestseller.. Abraham Verghese, reviewing the book in the New York Times described it as "a brilliant, thoughtful, timely and unsettling book whose greatest merit is that it will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists, nihilists, politicians and ...
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” — Stephen Chbosky, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” “We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are ...
In This Our Life is a 1941 novel by the American writer Ellen Glasgow. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. [ 1 ] The title is a quote from the sonnet sequence Modern Love by George Meredith : "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul/ When hot for certainties in this our life!"
Rosemary, while attending University of California, Davis in her early twenties, reflects on her early life in Indiana.She lived with her brother Lowell, mother, father, who is professor of behavioral psychology at Indiana University Bloomington, and a chimpanzee named Fern whom her parents have raised as a third child as part of a long-term scientific study.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a book by Eckhart Tolle.It is a discussion about how people interact with themselves and others. The concept of self-reflection and presence in the moment are presented along with simple exercises for the achievement of its principles.
Originally published in German by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2009, the book was translated into English in 2013. Keith Ansell-Pearson received this work as "a tour de force that engages the history of philosophy, religion, and thought, both Western and Eastern, in ways that make you think deeply about the evolution of the human being these past few thousand years.
The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his own reflections on issues raised.