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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
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
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
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
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying

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