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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

Barbara Kingsolver

Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People

If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

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