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The sad heart needs work to do.
Some things go too deep for words.
Staring down hard truth takes guts.
Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself
New places always help us look at life differently
The choices we make can have lasting consequences.
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.
Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.
When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.
I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)
Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.
A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.
Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.
when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible
You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.
i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?
Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.
Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.
If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.
Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.
If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?
...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.
Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.
Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.
it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.
You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.
When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.
You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.
...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.
Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.
I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.
"You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.""Good will triumph over evil," said Richard. "Liar."
My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy
Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.
Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.
You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.
...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.
When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.
I've never said this to a girl before." I bit my lip, waiting. "Well..." He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.
You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us." "So?" "We already have that!" "What do you mean?" "We've got dogs!
I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.
People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.
Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good.