The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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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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To think is not always to see.
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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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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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