Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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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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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Empathy 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.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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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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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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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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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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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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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