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- The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.
- Francine Du Plessix Gray
- Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
- Grenville Kleiser
- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
- Margaret Wheatley
- Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
- William Raspberry
- War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
- M. F. K. Fisher
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
- John Neal
- Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
- Alice Munro
- Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
- Elizabeth David
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