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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
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
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
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
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
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
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking

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