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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Barbara Kingsolver

Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
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
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
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

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

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