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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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enlightenment
humor
inspirational
road
difficulties
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Anne Lamott |
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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire - then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
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coping
struggles
coping-strategies
inconvenience
emergency
problems
difficulties
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Robert Fulghum |
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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....
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moving-on
letting-go
relationship
friendship
sister
difficulties
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Lois Lowry |
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87e6f91
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I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.
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people
flaws
difficulties
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Philip Roth |
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In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity--and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top.
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good-will
problems
avoidance
difficulties
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James Baldwin |
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Improbable as it may be, the day still has a few indignities left. The day waters down indignity with frustration to make it last longer. Abomination, thy name is Subway. He cannot enter. They flood through turnstiles, hips banging rods, and will not let him enter. He must get home, but it's all he can do to get halfway in before another one charges at him. A fish out of school. Everybody knows how it works except for him. All of them from every floor are crammed into this one subway car: the makers of memos, the routers of memos, the indexers filers and shredders of memos, the always-at-their-desks and the never-around. How do they all fit. Squabbling like pigeons over stale crumbs of seats. Everyone thinks they are more deserving, everyone thinks their day has been harder than everyone else's, and everyone is correct.
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commuting
indignities
subway
difficulties
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Colson Whitehead |
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"Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else."
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equality
perseverance
dreams
success
life
aims
hardships
dedication
ambition
trials
determination
difficulties
fairness
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Lois Lowry |
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Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.
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writing
optimism
clockwork
working
pessimism
difficulties
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Philip Pullman |