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

Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
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
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation

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