Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.”— Barbara Kingsolver
“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
“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”— Barbara Kingsolver
“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
“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
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”— Barbara Kingsolver
“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”— Barbara Kingsolver
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”— Barbara Kingsolver
“The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.”— Barbara Kingsolver