Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#currency #endurance #life #my life #small

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#all day #around #day #dog #dream

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#built #how #memory #much #surprising

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#around #behalf #crosses #every #fearsome

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#big #big guy #control #dump #everything

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#blindness #could #exist #lose #might

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#another #basic #crying #debris #embrace

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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#hope #inside #least #life #live

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#drive #fact #fine #going #how