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You can’t make the world love them like you do. You can’t make the world want them the way you do. You can’t make the world appreciate them and understand them. It hurts to know that the world won’t always be kind to them. There will be
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“Anything that helps hardworking people get ahead and live a decent life will be on the chopping block.”
― Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
― Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“According to the UNFCCC, only 0.01 percent of global finance supports projects that respond to the needs of women. In the United States, less than 2 percent of all philanthropic giving is to organizations that serve women and girls.”
― Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
― Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Annie Dillard: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
― Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
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