Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Life
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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Listen. 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. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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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.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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