The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s what you do that makes your soul.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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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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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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