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- I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight…
- One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant…
- Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it…
- Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
- When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.
- I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't…
- She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing…
- The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if…
- I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how…
- No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be…
- You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could…
- Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
- God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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