Cecily

Cecily’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1019)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (749)
did-not-finish‎ (4)
series‎ (59)
fiction‎ (47)
fantasy‎ (39)
favorite‎ (38)
science-fiction‎ (38)
non-fiction‎ (31)
romance‎ (30)
napoleonic‎ (22)

british-literature‎ (19)
miles‎ (17)
british-history‎ (15)
nautical‎ (14)
reference‎ (14)
americana‎ (12)
world-history‎ (12)
american-history‎ (11)
farseer‎ (11)
humor‎ (10)
lds‎ (10)
ebook‎ (9)

liw‎ (9)
memoir‎ (9)
young-adult‎ (8)
american-literature‎ (7)
dystopian‎ (6)
self-help‎ (6)
ender‎ (5)
essays‎ (5)
inda‎ (5)
atlas‎ (4)
manual‎ (4)
scripture‎ (4)

shakespeare‎ (4)
supernatural-horror‎ (4)
canadian-literature‎ (3)
children-s‎ (3)
geography‎ (3)
irish-history‎ (3)
play‎ (3)
wwii‎ (3)
finance‎ (2)
music-education‎ (2)
wwi‎ (2)
alvin-maker‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Cecily’s Quotes

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

3147 likes

“The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

tags: sabbath, shabbat, shabbos, soul

11 likes

“Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

tags: beast, burden, efficiency, man, work

21 likes

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: carpe-diem, food, titanic

1315 likes

“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: eleanor-roosevelt, in-the-long-run, what-counts

102 likes

More of Cecily’s quotes…