Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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It 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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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