Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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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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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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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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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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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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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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