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- It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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