Literally Just Quotes: 2017, when I finally finished War and Peace.

I like to remember my favorite bits of books by highlighting in my Kindle, which lets me go back and see just a list of my favorite lines. Every once in a while, I'll write a list. Here's some of those from books I read in 2017.

1. Lasting Impact by Carey Nieuwhof. I like this guy because he is proud of his crazy hard to spell last name. Here are some favorite tidbits from his book (all direct quotes).

• Workoholism is the most rewarded addiction in America.
• When was the last time you hung out with a friend you didn't need to minister to?
• I really think sleep is one of the most underrated leadership weapons there is.

For a book about leadership, he really focused on the leader (or maybe those are just the parts that made me love it!).


2. War & Peace. It took me about a year to finish War & Peace - it was so long and drawn out! But here are some of my favorite bits of the behemoth:

• The conversation seemed interesting to him, and he stopped, waiting for a chance to voice his thoughts, as young people like to do.

• Either this gaze said nothing at all, except that as long as one has eyes one must look somewhere, or it said all too much.

• He used to say that there were only two sources of human vice: idleness and superstition; and that there were only two virtues: activity and intelligence.

• Ah! if we did not have religion to console us, life would be quite sad.

• all their similarly dissimilar faces,

• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young men are rarely capable of it.

• Every general and soldier sensed his own nullity, aware of being a grain of sand in this sea of people, and at the same time sensed his strength, aware of being part of this enormous whole.

And guys, that's only up to page 250 of over 1000!


3. Catalyst (A Star Wars Novel)

• “ Mathematics isn’t just science , it is poetry — our efforts to crystallize the unglimpsed connections between things . Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries of the galaxy . But the signs and symbols and equations sentients employ to express these connections are not discoveries but the teasing out of secrets that have always existed . All our theories belong to nature , not to us . As in music , every combination of notes and chords , every melody has already been played and sung , somewhere , by someone — "