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• The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

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  Successful, Embrace, Family History

  "How Easter and Passover Can Make Your Family Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

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  Writing, World, Force

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Connections, Generations

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

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  Frustrated, May

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Writing, Library, Eras

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• Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

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  Father, People, Risk

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• 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.

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  Father, Names, Modern

  "This Month in Moses: How the Superhero of the Bible Became an American Pop Icon" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.

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  Book, Home, Thinking

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

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  Father, Inspiration

  "God and Dad -- A Father's Four Lessons of Faith" by Bruce Feiler, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2010.

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

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  Biblical, Names, Creator

  "This Month in Moses: How the Superhero of the Bible Became an American Pop Icon" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Odds, Generations, Stories

  "Telling Our Stories" by Rabbi David Wolkenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• When it comes to gender, marriage, family, work, and religion - we once thought of them as being fixed, but they're incredibly fluid. The same is true for love. Love was not something that was originally built between two equal partners in a relationship. It's something that's been hard-earned over time.

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  Gender, Equal

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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.

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  Mean, Talking, Important

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• 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.

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  Children, Skills, Giving

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• 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.

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  Memories, School, Climbing

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• Learning to heal ruptures is a key to having a successful relationship. Adam and Eve model that for all of us. In Hollywood love is a choice, and you live happily ever after. In real life love is a series of choices. You make the choice to be with a person over and over again.

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  Real, Love Life, Successful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

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  Hate, Book, Confession

  "5 Secrets to a Happy Family" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Children, Skills, People

  Bruce Feiler (2013). “The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play and Much More”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

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  College, Japan, United States

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• Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anything, is the great initiator in the story. She's the first independent woman. For me, rediscovering that Eve was the greatest bad**s women of all time was a revelation.

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  Character, Independent, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

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  Topics, Knows

  "God in the U.S.A.: Americans Know More About Religion Than Most Other Subjects". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2010.

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

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  Use, World, Forget

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

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  Dream, Book, Writing

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• But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

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  Fruit, Adam, Disappoint

  Bruce Feiler (2009). “Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

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  Book, Writing

  "5 Secrets to a Happy Family" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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