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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
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 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
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
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

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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