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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

Barbara Kingsolver

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

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