It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREmpathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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