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"Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure."
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"Life isn't life without real butter."
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"It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety."
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"Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry."
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
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"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."
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"But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me."
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"If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!"
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"Over complication only confuses the essence of things."
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"Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day."
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"In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity."
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"All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him."
Worship
"Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy."
Ambition
"A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human."
Understanding
"Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is."
Fellowship
"It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable."
Philosophy
"When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul."
Community
"The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life."
Reflection
"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God."
Spiritual
"I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll."
Storytelling
"Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be."
Relationship
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