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"Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
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"Appreciate others so that you can be appreciated."
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Personal Development
"Be grateful for the blessing of the moments."
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Personal Development
"I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur."
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Personal Development
"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow."
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"If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles."
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"A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile."
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"Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life."
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"Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night."
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"Wealth is a small blessing, health is a great asset, happiness is an extraordinary treasure, and life is a remarkable reward."
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"There is always something to appreciate in people."
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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."
Philosophy
"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
Life
"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Work
"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Living
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
People
"That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony."
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