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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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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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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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