All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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