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Quote for Today: Barbara Kingsolver
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September 7, 2018 by katmcdaniel

I do understand that they fall when I’m least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tree, …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: awareness, Barbara Kingsolver, clamor, distraction, elementary, glory, grace, humanity, life, omnipresent, ordinary, overlooked, poetry, Small Wonder
Quote for Today: Amy Neftzger
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September 5, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don’t let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: aggravation, Amy Neftzger, birth, forgetting, glorious, glory, humanity, inconvenience, memory, pain, quest, success, The Orphanage of Miracles
Quote for Today: Eric Hoffer
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September 3, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience… The …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: audience, awareness, camouflage, Eric Hoffer, escape, frustrated, glory, humanity, mass movements, pretending, self, spectacle, The True Believer, theatrical
Quote for Today: Madeline Miller
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October 12, 2015 by katmcdaniel

Odysseus inclines his head. “True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: admiration, fame, glory, history, humanity, infamy, Madeline Miller, memory, myth, mythical, resilience, The Song of Achilles, unfair, unpredictable
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
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August 26, 2013 by katmcdaniel

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: defend, destroyer, glory, home, humanity, J.R.R. Tolkien, life, love, resilience, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, war, warrior

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