The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe talkers are rising above the thinkers.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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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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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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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 conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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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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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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