Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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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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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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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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