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cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend
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I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.
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Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.
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To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.
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It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
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If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say."
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My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower.
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On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.
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In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.
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It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
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A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied."
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A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.
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ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world.
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Every day is the prime of your life.
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optimism
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Nothing > Love.
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For some reason, it takes my brain a moment to process...the open-close symbols on elevators, which is which.
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It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can't you just see its slow, peaceful decent?
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Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
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He said it was a quintessential Pal moment--being out and about in the universe, and then unexpectedly crossing paths with someone from home base.
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I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means "far-sickness, an ache for distance." Penny"
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The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of--and relationship to--time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. . .
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Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded,
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I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....
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Death demands its own designated punctuation mark. Maybe: ______ died/ It is a dividing line / everything on this side is different.
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When you woke up, for a moment you thought you were the moon.
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Work must reflect the randomness of life, with its incessant, merciless, almost humorous bombardment of highly contrasting emotions and experiences.
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As kids, our stock answer to most every question was Then, somewhere on the way to adulthood, we each took a 180-degree turn. We cashed in our .
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I always got the words pedestrian and Presbyterian confused. I didn't understand why Presbyterians always had the right of way.
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If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch or dinner without you.
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A rainy day comes as a relief. Rain is your pass to stay inside, to retreat. It's cozy and safe, hanging out on this side of the gray. But then the sun comes out in the afternoon, and there's disappointment, even fear, because the world will now resume, and it expects your participation. People will get dressed and leave their houses and go places and do things. Stepping out into the big, whirling, jarringly sunny world--a world that just a..
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What does sensitive mean exactly? he asked, and I tried to explain it to him as best I could: Let's say you see someone crying, and you don't even know them, but you kind of catch their sadness, it somehow jumped into your heart, and this makes you understand a bit how they feel.
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There are proponents of New Year's Eve, and there are proponents of regular Tuesday nights. I am one of the latter, much happier residing in the wake of the mundane.
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We use these defining truths to help us stay in the lines of ourselves. We think we have to hold on to these labels, we feel comfortable holding on to these labels, but it turns out the labels are removable, you can peel them right off.
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turn page upside down =
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