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For the first time, readers are granted access to fifty years of the author's personal writings in this posthumous collection that includes previously unpublished texts, speeches, letters, interviews and private notes, as well as key excerpts from the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
3) Ugly dolls
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The free-spirited UglyDolls confront what it means to be different, struggle with their desire to be loved, and ultimately discover that you don't have to be perfect to be amazing because who you truly are is what matters most.
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Anna Quindlen offers deep truths from her life to motivate and inspire you to become your most authentic self.
“Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion. . . . What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
In Being Perfect, Anna Quindlen shares...
“Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion. . . . What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
In Being Perfect, Anna Quindlen shares...
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Two friends are at a beach building a sandcastle, and finally they build it to where they think it is just perfect. Then, more beach-goers arrive and offer their input about what would make the sandcastle truly perfect--the two original friends, in the end, realize it was all just a sandcastle anyway, and learn a valuable lesson about perspective.
6) Flunking sainthood: a year of breaking the Sabbath, forgetting to pray, and still loving my neighbor
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This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing—not just at some of the practices, but at every
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Five misfits: one holey, one folded up like an envelope, one floppy and boneless, one topsy-turvey, and one that can only be described as a total catastrophe, are perfectly content living in their ramshackle house until one day Mr Perfect, replete with bright pink knickerbockers and fluorescent hair, arrives to inform the happy-go-lucky crew that their lives are completely worthless. Initially dejected and depressed, each character uses their own...
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Winner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award
In a book hailed as "liberating" (Gary Chapman, New York Times bestselling author), an award-winning author and mother of four weaves her own stories and struggles with those of seven ex-perfectionist saints (and one heretic) who show us how to pursue a new kind of perfection: freedom in Christ.
Spiritual perfectionism—an obsession with flawlessness rooted...
In a book hailed as "liberating" (Gary Chapman, New York Times bestselling author), an award-winning author and mother of four weaves her own stories and struggles with those of seven ex-perfectionist saints (and one heretic) who show us how to pursue a new kind of perfection: freedom in Christ.
Spiritual perfectionism—an obsession with flawlessness rooted...
10) Perfect pigeons
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In a flock of "perfectly same" pigeons, one member redefines perfection, demonstrating the joys of being unique.