Laurel Lea Quotes

#1. (Home) is you in things.

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#2. Appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

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#3. Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

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#4. A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

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#5. The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

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#6. I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

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#7. Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

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#8. I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

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#9. It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

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#10. Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

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#11. I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

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#12. It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

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#13. A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

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#14. Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

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#15. Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

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#16. Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

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#17. When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

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