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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important

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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