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• Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Honesty, Book, School

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• We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

  Price Pritchett

  Knowledge, School, Thinking

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• A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Book, Blessed, Heart

  "A Man Made of Money".

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• This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very very glad to be with you.

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Glad, Mines

  "Diana Nyad becomes first to swim from Cuba to Florida without shark cage" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2013.

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• Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

  Jay Samit

  Luxury, Employment, Lifelong Learning

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.64, Macmillan

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• All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

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• Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.

  Mother Teresa

  Wisdom, Fun, Rich Or Poor

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• But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

  Sean Connery

  Art, Believe, Opportunity

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• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

  Brad Feld

  Journey, Views, Sometimes

  "Sometimes Failure Is Your Best Option". www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013.

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• To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Reading, Interesting, Reader

  Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.45, Stenhouse Publishers

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• As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than just learn how to read and write; we want them to learn in such a way that they become lifelong readers and writers. If we push our children to start learning these skills too far ahead of their own spontaneous interest and their capacity, we may sacrifice the long-range goal of having them enjoy such pursuits.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Moving, Writing

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• Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

  Jim George

  Spiritual, Maturity, Years

  Jim George (2008). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters”, p.38, Harvest House Publishers

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• Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relationship- the intimate, fertile conversation between our own heart's wisdom and the way the world has emerged before us- becomes a lifelong practice of deep and sacred listening for the next right thing we are required to do. We make the only choice that feels authentic and honest, necessary and true in that moment.

  Wayne Muller

  Heart, Practice, Choices

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• I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses.

  Janet Frame

  Loneliness, Unique, Views

  Janet Frame (1985). “To the is-land: an autobiography”, George Braziller

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• I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.

  Kelly Slater

  Journey, Years, Want

  "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Mind

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• On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Struggle, Blue, Two

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• Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws on his professional experience as a psychologist and his own lifelong vocation as a Christian. The result is a book that felicitously weaves together the insights of psychology and Christian spirituality.

  Margaret Guenther

  Christian, Wise, Being Yourself

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• It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Choices, Authority

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• As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

  David James Duncan

  Jesus, Evil, Goal

  "When Compassion Becomes Dissent". orionmagazine.org.

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• Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.

  John Corey Whaley

  Children, Memories, Sibling

  John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work

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• We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

  John Medina

  Jobs, Curiosity, Medina

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.133, Pear Press

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• To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Being In Love, Goes On, Beloved

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