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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #changed #come #completely #could

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. ↗

— Russell Banks

#care #love #people #want #who

And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation? ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#conversation

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#desire #motivation #oneself #personality #attitude

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. ↗

— Rollo May

#quiet #solitude #creativity

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#proverb #buddhism

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#bought #brown #buried #down #down the road

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#business #dinner #dinner parties #like #merely

Every negative... Has a positive side... ↗

— Nelson M. Lubao

#life-lessons #lpositive-attitude #right-perspectives #attitude

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. ↗

— Joshua Harris

#god #i-kissed-dating-goodbye #joshua-harris #love #relationship-with-god