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I'm sending an extra book with the book chosen from the VBB. Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks so much - I read the first one and I'm sure I'll like this one as well.
I appreciate your kind RABCK.

Another volume with the personal manifestos of both famous and ordinary people. NPR restarted this series that originally premiered in the 50s and it's as relevant today as it was then. The essays cover a wide range of philosophies and views - as one of the essayists from the first volume stated "You have a multiplicity of voices and it's a celebration of that multiplicity."

Quotes to remember:

We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion. A lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism, or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the marketplace, while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply. Around us all - now high like a distant thunderhead, now close upon us with the wet choking intimacy of a London fog - there is an enveloping cloud of fear...
It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong. What truths can a human being afford to furnish the cluttered nervous room of his mind when he has no real idea how long a lease he has on the future.
--Edward R. Murrow, written in 1951 (and to my mind, it could have been written yesterday.)

I believe there is magic in Christmas and the music that celebrates it, because it brings us closer together and closer to our own hearts.
-- Steve Banko

Tonight I will cook dinner, tell my husband how much I love him, curl up with the dogs, watch the sun go down over the mountains, and climb into bed. I will think about how uncomplicated it all is. I will wonder at how it took me my entire life to appreciate just one day.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

I believe that grief, fully expressed, will change over time into something less overpowering, even granting us a new understanding, a kind of double vision that comprehends both the beauty and fragility of life at the same time.
When I grieve, when I stand by others as they grieve, even in the midst of seemingly unbearable sorrow, grief becomes a way to honor life - a way to cling to every fleeting precious moment of joy.
--Cortney Davis

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
--Robert Fulghum

I believe I can get around the obstacles in my life not by fighting them, but by yielding to them and pushing off from them.
--Jimmy Liao

I believe that in this world there is and always has been so much sadness and sorrow, so much uncertainty, that if we didn't set aside time for merriment, gifts, music, and laughter with family and friends, we might forget to celebrate altogether. We'd just plod along in life.
I believe in the importance of celebrations...I celebrated the ones I love, and I hope with all my heart that I celebrated them well.
--Melinda Shoaf

Adding to booklady331's Nonfiction VBB

One of my selections from Round 3 of the Nonfiction VBB. Thanks for sharing!

All worthwhile, but I much preferred the first one. In any case, get it on audio so you can hear the essays directly from the authors.

Offered up during Round 5 of booklady331’s Non-fiction VBB

Claimed and headed west via USPS.

I received this book in the mail from Moody-Blue of Meers, Oklahoma. I chose it from booklady331's nonfiction vbb. Thank you Moody-Blue.

This book has been donated for the third time to the nonfiction vbb. This past year, I have been reading this book the way one would read a devotional. I have been reading one "belief" daily. They are short usually about three pages.

I confess that I knew nothing about this radio program before receiving this book. I have never listened to radio programs. I did not read the first “This I Believe” book. I chose to read this book like a devotional, reading only one small essay daily. I was most impressed with the essay by Sister Helen Prejean who is a spiritual advisor to death row prisoners. Elie Weisel’s essay was superb. I disagree with the essay written by a young man who believes that God does not know the future. He is incorrect. A lot of the essays did not touch my heart.

This book has been removed from the nonfiction vbb and made available.

This book was left in the Little Free Library. It was released for the Never Judge a Book by its Cover release challenge. (The book has a subtitle.)