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I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
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humor
high
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).
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tucson
dark
joy
life
love
tide
times
taught
kingsolver
rebirth
high
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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0981305
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Since childhood, I'd believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demeaned minorities and expressed contempt for prisoners of war, challenging the dignity of our country with practically his every utterance. I wanted Americans to understand that words matter--that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it. It was dignity I wanted to make an appeal for--the idea that as a nation we might hold on to the core thing that had sustained my family, going back generations. Dignity had always gotten us through. It was a choice, and not always the easy one, but the people I respected most in life made it again and again, every single day. There was a motto Barack and I tried to live by, and I offered it that night from the stage: When they go low, we go high.
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politics
low
minorities
dignity
bullies
high
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Michelle Obama |
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The high point of your life was when you knocked me down
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life
knocked-down
high
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Nancy Farmer |
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The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather..
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nature
beauty
life
hey-nostradamus
high
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Douglas Coupland |
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I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds.
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humour
cyd-charisse
gingerbread
leg-injury
oscar-the-grouch
painkillers
pills
rachel-cohn
sesame-street
shrimp
medication
high
drugs
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Rachel Cohn |
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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high
lewis-carroll
trip
drugs
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Beatrice Sparks |