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More than ever, families socialize together: Going out to dinner usually means bringing the whole family along. Mothers’ time to themselves and time with adults both dropped by about seven hours a week from 1975 to 2000. Employed mothers’
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“This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
“the current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines.”
― Antarctica
― Antarctica
“The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself.”
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
“Only this moment, always. We never get to change the past. We never get to know the future. No reason to wish for one place rather than another; no reason to say I wish I were home, or I wish I were in an exotic new place that is not my home. They will all be the same as this place. Here the experience of existing comes clear. This world is our body. Now”
― Antarctica
― Antarctica
“Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.”
― The Years of Rice and Salt
― The Years of Rice and Salt
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