…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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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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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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