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“Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write”
― Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
― Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. ”
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
“It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.”
― The Middle Place
― The Middle Place
Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Book Club, Children's, Cooking, Fiction, Food, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Self help, and Spirituality
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