You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMemories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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