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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
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
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
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
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe

We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

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