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.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Terms like that, ""Humane Society,"" are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
