Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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It has been forever since I've posted a book recommendations video and I think I know why. I turn them into tags apparently.

Tag Source Material:
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff - amazon.com/Chicken-Soup-Teenage-Tough-Stuff/dp/1623611199

Tag Prompts:
1. On Self-Acceptance: "And you help each other realize that all the things you want to be...you already are." - Gretchen, Dawson's Creek

2. Drugs and Alcohol: "Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery." - Matthew Arnold

3. Family Matters: "The family is one of nature's masterpieces." - George Santayana

4. Suicide: "Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live." - Vittorio Alfierti

5. Tragedy: "I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and that our mission is to never let it." - Sally Reardon, Felicity

6. Abuse: "The untold truths of wisdom lie solely in the beating of the heart of an ill-treated child whose wounds will heal and heart will seal, but memory will never die." - Savannah Marion

7. On Courage: "One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who your are, what you believe in, and where you want to go." - Shiela Murray Bethel

8. Learning Difficult Lessons: "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Saunders Law

9. Eating Disorders and Depression (extend to all Mental Health Issues): "When it gets dark enough you can see the stars." - Lee Salk

10. Death and Dying: "It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

11. Growing Up: "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." - Deepak Chopran

I tag:
Amanda: A Court of Books and Love
April: AprilSarah
Cat: BrewsandReviews
Amanda: Amanda Readsss
Alyssa: Books With Alyssa J

::Collaborators::
Michael michaelgoleniewski.com

Michelle: NoseStuckInABook youtube.com/channel/UC0nGxKHviadbYOUCcLoWTfQ

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