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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.

Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
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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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
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

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.

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