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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
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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Children Littles Magic
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
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
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fun Hopeful Positive
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

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