Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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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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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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