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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWe agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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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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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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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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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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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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