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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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