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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
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
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
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

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

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