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Things are always better in the morning.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some ...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being...

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

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I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...

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However much they may smile at her, the old inhabitants would miss Tillie. Her stories give them som...

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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, ...

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They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from wh...

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It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never fel...

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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading...

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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It...

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Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn ...

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God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, p...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in...

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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the...

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