“You can’t, in other words, build a billion-dollar empire like Facebook if you’re wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook.”
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“Welcome, New Year," said Captain Jim, bowing low as the last stroke died away. " I wish you all the best years of your lives, mates. I reckon taht whatever the New Year brings us will be the best the Great Captain has for us -and somehow or other we'll all make port in a good harbour.”
― Anne's House of Dreams: Annotated Edition
― Anne's House of Dreams: Annotated Edition
“As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.”
― The Age of Reason
― The Age of Reason
“It is for art to present images of a lovelier order than the actual, gently winning the affections, and so determining the taste.”
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“There has never been a gift offered that makes you swallow your pride to the depths that the gift of Jesus Christ requires us to do. Christmas means that we are so lost, so unable to save ourselves, that nothing less than the death of the Son of God himself could save us. That means you are not somebody who can pull yourself together and live a moral and good life.”
― Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ
― Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ
Gracie’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Gracie’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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