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We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.


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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.



If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.



Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.



Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.



Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.



Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.



The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.



It's what you do that makes your soul.

It's what you do that makes your soul.



Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.



Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.





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In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.



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