A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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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.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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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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