“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
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“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.
She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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