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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
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
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul

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