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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
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
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
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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Looks Patience World
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
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
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two

…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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