30 Bruce Feiler Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bruce Feiler

American Writer

Born: Oct 25, 1964

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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause. Bruce Feiler

World Walk Take Behold Pause Turtle

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. Bruce Feiler

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The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way. Bruce Feiler

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome. Bruce Feiler

Family You Confidence Celebrate Darkness Overcome Relatives Will Too Give Shall Overcame How Doing Encounter Children Them Your Moments

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast. Bruce Feiler

Myself Great Me Learning Age Culture College Air Way Out About Joining Great Way Learned Discount Leaving South Up North Southerner Northeast Going Different Grew Act Fare Found

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand. Bruce Feiler

You Change Better Same Thing Thinking Say Over Know Understand Said Go Decades Trying Same Which Japan Now Thing

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god. Bruce Feiler

God Father Superman Drawn Clearly Name His Modern-Day Swift Original

If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt. Bruce Feiler

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.' Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. Bruce Feiler

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Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope. Bruce Feiler

Hope God Words World Only Forget Create Uses

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection. Bruce Feiler

Religion Spiritual Generation Say Would Felt South Fifth Connection Jew

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people. Bruce Feiler

Dreams Book People Writing Will Every Touch Touch People Writer

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. Bruce Feiler

Positive Alone Family You Will Thrive Odds Difficult Increase Back Ability Bottom Bottom Line Generations Bounce Come Line Refine May Want Story Happier Create Act Your Many Moments

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves. Bruce Feiler

My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story. Bruce Feiler

Good Word First Incurable Tell Exaggerate Bruce Good Story Shape Share Knew Instantly Name Occasionally Isaac Inevitably Condition Heard Same Often Story Asimov Used Describe Suffered Desire

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. Bruce Feiler

Library Writing Topic Out About Only Had Volume Naive Checked Academic WWII Era Public Public Library Publishing Treatise

All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up. Bruce Feiler

Time Problems Research Backs Marriages One-On-One Date Schedule Most Couples Answer Been Up Modern Regular Default Night

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. Bruce Feiler

Parenting Hate Confession Earnest Books Repetitive Here

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