In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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