Careless Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,…

— James Howard Kunstler

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings…

— Walter Scott

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited…

— Elisabeth Elliot

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion…

— Howard Bloom

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

— Sophocles

...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is…

— Daniel Defoe

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless,…

— Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual…

— Robert Louis Stevenson