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Life Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
- What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep…
- What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally…
- When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
- The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
- Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls…
- It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing…
- Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old…
- In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take…
- What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the…
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds…
- 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…
- To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into…
- Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
- Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
- Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for…
- 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…
- I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss…
- God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
- Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to…
- If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
- 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…
- When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out…
- The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle