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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying

I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

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