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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Barbara Kingsolver

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

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