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Bruce Feiler Biography

Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 12 books, including six consecutive New York Times nonfiction best-sellers. He writes the "This Life" column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler (2014).

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Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk to the one you love. It's all about connection. It's hard, but it's ultimately what gives us meaning in the world.

Community, Connection, Eye, Giving, Media, Social

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

Faith, Father, Fathers, Inspiration

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

Frustrated, God, May, Religion, Take

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

Accumulate, Back, Grand, Small Steps, Small Wins, Winning

I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was. . . trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

Climbing, Feet, Memories, Say, School, Schools

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.

Children, Faced, Happy, People, Skills

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

Behold, Pause, Turtles, Walk, Walks, World

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

Americans, Exodus, Inspired, Narrative, Stories

Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.

Biblical, Creator, Creators, Names, Reflects

When you hit the unimaginable, the only answer is imaginativeness. You have to heal with the person that you're suffering with. You have to write a new chapter in your story. A relationship can be a sacred thing, but it's going to be difficult. There are going to be challenges. You are going to have pain. But working it through and being resilient is as sacred and meaningful as having a "Hollywood" romance.

Difficult, Meaningful, Pain, Sacred, Writing

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

Adventure, Lasts, Love, May, Word

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.

Checked, Eras, Library, Volume, Writing

Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

Cancer, Frightening, Inspiration, Maybe, Motivation, Vital

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.

Ask, Meaningful, Passed, People, Reading, Religious

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. . . . It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Idea, Kids, Team, Technology, Turns

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

Book, Dream, Dreams, People, Writer, Writing

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

Children, Control, Evaluate, Goal, Schedules, Take

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.

Children, Felt, Giving, Like, Positive, Skills

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

Bottom, Line, Lines, Skeletons, Want

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.

Connections, Fifth, Generation, Generations, Say, Spiritual

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