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If it’s important, your heart remembers.

Barbara Kingsolver

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
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
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
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
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
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals

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