Book Highlights #1 : Wonder — R.J.Palacio

Each year i sign up for the book challenge but end up not reading enough to even look at the status of completion. In January i am very excited to get it started and make reading a deeper daily habit. But, it doesn’t move forward beyond a few books.

This year for a change, i wanted to start my reading challenge slightly before the new year. Book reviews are interesting, honest and insightful and i enjoy reading them. What i like more are some meaningful, powerful and deep quotes, phrases and paragraphs which make you pause and then read it again.

My Wonderful collection from the book ‘Wonder.’

1. A precept is anything that helps guide us when making decisions about really important things.
2. When given the choice between being right or being kind, Choose Kind.
3. Why blend in when you were born to stand out?
4. Your deeds are your monuments.
5. Greatness, lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts.
6. The universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of all its birds.
7. I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation atleast once in their lives.
8. The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can run around the track,or even your grade point average-though those things are important, to be sure. It’s about how you have chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year.That is the greatest measure of success.
9. Courage, Kindness, Frienship, Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings and propel us, on occasion , to greatness.
10. Have no friends not equal to yourself — Confucius
11. Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much- Blaise Pascal