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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.

Barbara Kingsolver

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way

One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.

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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.

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