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We Bought a Zoo
“Throwing yourself into worthwhile, fruitful hard work that you believe in, as much as you can handle and more, is a kind of luxury not everyone gets to experience.” ~Benjamin Mee
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
“It's strange, how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all. The place that is supposed to want you has pushed you out. No other place takes you in. You are unwanted, by everyone. You are a refugee.” ~Clemantine Wamariya
The Collapse of Parenting
“The child expects to look up to the parent, to be instructed by the parent… but if the parent instead serves the child, then that relationship falls out of its natural balance. You may not earn your child’s love at all” ~Leonard Sax
The Kite Runner
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” ~Khaled Hosseini
The Zahir
“The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.” ~Paulo Coelho
Dumplin’
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose. —Dolly Parton”
Kind Is the New Classy
“Kind and classy women celebrate the other women in every room rather than sizing them up.” ~Candace Cameron Bure
Veiled/Sand Bride
“If only she could go back and make different choices…”
Pure Pleasure
Prepare to be challenged to experience life as God meant it to be: overflowing with pleasure!
Start With Why
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.” ~Simon Sinek
You Say More Than You Think
“We must not wait to be happy. We have to start right now, right this very second.” ~Janine Driver
Comeback Careers
The essential guide for women re-entering or re-inventing themselves in the workforce.
From the Ashes
“It lit me up to see my name, "Jesse Thistle," alongside "University of Ottawa." I'd done something significant. I'd actually achieved something in my life. I didn't have a driver's license, ID, a proper high school education, a health card, nothing—but there was this completion certificate that had "university" with my name under it!” ~Jesse Thistle
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
― Brené Brown
Atomic Habits
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.” ~James Clear
White Fragility
“The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people is at the root of virtually all white defensiveness on this topic.” ~Robin DiAngelo
Joy at Work
“By organizing your work, you've given yourself a gift that goes far beyond a tidy desk, orderly calendar, or clean inbox. You've taken back some control of your work life..” ~Marie Kondo
Daring Greatly
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.” ~Brené Brown
12 Rules for Life
“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.” ~Jordan B. Peterson
9 Things You Simply Must Do
“Avoidance always prolongs pain, in the end.” ~Henry Cloud