Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Barbara Kingsolver quotes, Barbara Kingsolver sayings, and Barbara Kingsolver proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.Barbara Kingsolver
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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.Barbara Kingsolver
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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.Barbara Kingsolver
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.Barbara Kingsolver
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The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners.Barbara Kingsolver
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A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.Barbara Kingsolver
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.Barbara Kingsolver
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.Barbara Kingsolver
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.Barbara Kingsolver
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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.Barbara Kingsolver
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.Barbara Kingsolver
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As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.Barbara Kingsolver
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A meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.Barbara Kingsolver
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No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.Barbara Kingsolver
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.Barbara Kingsolver
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.Barbara Kingsolver
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.Barbara Kingsolver
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Hope is a renewable option: if you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.Barbara Kingsolver
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To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.Barbara Kingsolver
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.Barbara Kingsolver
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.Barbara Kingsolver
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.Barbara Kingsolver
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Marriage is one long fit of compromise, deep and wide.Barbara Kingsolver
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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. Barbara Kingsolver
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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.Barbara Kingsolver
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.Barbara Kingsolver
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Hope is a renewable option: if you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.Barbara Kingsolver
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.Barbara Kingsolver
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.Barbara Kingsolver
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.Barbara Kingsolver