“I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.”
― Dream More
― Dream More
“Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.”
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“When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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