"You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient."
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"From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men."
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"In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain."
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"Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need"
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"The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage."
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"How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want."
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"He needs to go rub his soul against life."
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"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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"Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same"
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"The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary."
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"Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?"
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"It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
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"When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday."
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"Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history."
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"This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten."
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"The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up."
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"All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out."
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"It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water."
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"...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward."
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"If it's important, your heart remembers."
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