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I think everyone should take time at least once a week to catch a sunrise, just to feel alive and that there is hope.
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Her fear kept her as caged as her canaries. The glass windows were no different than their metal bars.
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Wichita. The roads here are flat and I can see for miles. Easy driving. Times like these, I wish you were sitting here beside me chatting, instead
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Power isn't telling someone what to do, she told herself. Strength isn't having the upper hand. Nobility and grace are revealed in the manner in which love is given.
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I think everyone should take time, at least once a week, to catch a sunrise. Just to feel alive and that there's hope.
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Light helps define a place. Here the light has color. It changes throughout the day and it's unpredictable.
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month's
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Perhaps he kept surprising her, she pondered, because she was limiting him in her mind.
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sculpting is really a long series of decisions. When you make good ones, you have a product you like. When you make a bad one, you toss it and start again. And there are always lots of bad decisions. But the good ones are worth waiting for.
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Grief can make you question your goals and purpose. How you want to spend your life.
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They were specific about symptoms of grief--the sensations of choking, shortness of breath, feelings of emptiness, endless crying. But nothing warned her that when she wasn't experiencing those symptoms of anguish, all that was left was a sense of meaninglessness. A great, vast gray space of nothingness
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Mamaw lounged in her robe on the back porch, feet up on the ottoman, sipping coffee and reading the Post & Courier. Today was her birthday! Eighty years of living . . . Who'd have guessed it? She felt she'd earned the right to be decadently lazy today. Her past was behind her and she'd lived a full life. She didn't like to think her best was behind her as well, but she was realistic that this might be true. Still, it was a blessing to live ..
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Love wasn't hard, she thought. Losing love was.
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The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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I wouldn't be worth my salt as a mother if I didn't pass on the family recipes.
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She left home in a huff of tears and landed in Chicago. That soaring city on Lake Michigan suited her outspoken, rebellious ways more than the delicately mannered, cultured city of Charleston ever had.
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We can only do what we can live with.
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A woman's life has so many demands because she is the axis around which so many little planets spin. I did it and, yes, there were countless delightful moments. But that part of my life died when Stratton did.
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Money and emotion were never a good combination.
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Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.
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I'm just saying there's no excuse for a man to hit a woman. None. Period. But verbal beatings can be worse. More insidious, in that the scars aren't visible. Words can be killers.
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People always seem to be in so much of a hurry," Lovie continued as she sat down breathlessly in the sand. "Rush, rush, rush. What are they rushing toward? Life isn't some kind of race. We all cross the same finish line, sooner or later. You'd hate to get the end in sight and suddenly wish you'd walked rather than run, wouldn't you?" "Maybe that's why they call it the human race."
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She never wanted to hurt anyone's feelings. But in the end, she hurt herself.
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It time for me to shed all my insecurities and fears. Let them fall to the ground. It's time for me to find my voice and fly.
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I still have my talent. My life. You're the one who told me not to live in fear. I'm listening to you. If I don't act on my instincts, then I'm afraid to act on what I know is right. And this is right. I feel it in my heart. In my soul. I know what to do.
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But the pursuit of wealth would not inspire passion.
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That death followed life and life was renewed once again, over and over with the steadiness of the seasons.
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I'm sure that's true. Nonetheless, Nate has to learn to face the consequences of his actions. You will not be able to protect him from all of life's difficult moments, you know. No parent can. All we can do is to let him go through them and learn from them. To give him the tools he needs.
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I accept that the mind often dictates the heart. Yet I believe that the heart is the truer guide.
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I accept that I'm feeling afraid at this moment. But it's only a feeling. I accept it won't kill me. This feeling is the worst that will happen. I just need to ride it out.
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That's all any of us can do, my dear. We wake up, bolster our resolve, and rise to face the new day. Or else lie in bed and waste our lives.
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No more sorrow and regret! Take heart! A new day is beginning.
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But she had the chance now to make things right, at least for her daughter. She may have done a lot of things wrong, but the decision to give up her child would be the one responsible, unselfish act of her life. It was the best thing she'd ever done. But it felt like the worst.
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Her love for Mamaw had always been like that porch light, the one true shining light in her heart when the world proved dark and scary.
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Be strong, my baby girl. Be happy. You will survive." And so, she vowed, would she."
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Don't be angry any longer! Cancer is eating away my body, but anger will eat away your soul. Don't let it destroy your chance for happiness.
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A mother never hears the words "I hate you" without cringing and feeling like a hopeless failure."
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see so many things in you, Anne Marie," she said softly, tilting her head as she continued her perusal. "The way you move your head a certain way, the breathiness of your voice, the manner in which you hold your shoulders back when you walk. They say there are blood ties in every family and I believe it. I'd like to tell you everything there is to know about me and my family--your family. Not to detract from the family that you already have..
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Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.
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I can't change the past. I can't take the hurt back. But I can soften it if I can just learn how to accept it.
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What had Van Gogh said? I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Stop what you're doing and observe your children! Lovie wanted to say to the young mother. Quick, set aside your chores and turn your head. See how they laugh with such abandon? Only the very young can laugh like that. Look how they are giving you clues to who they are. Treasure these moments! Savor them. For they will disappear as quickly as the setting sun. And then, before you know it, you will be like me--an old woman, alone and willing..
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Tears filled her eyes. Seeing the mother and her young children brought back images that were both joyous and heartbreaking. The years had flown by too swiftly, slipping away like sand through her fingers. She lifted her chin and wiped away the tear from her cheek. The vast blue ahead stretched out seemingly to infinity. This was no time for tears, she chided herself. She was old enough to know that life, like the sea, didn't always play fa..
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