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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Daughter, Dark

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, World, Can Do
Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Being Alone, Writing

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
Life, Trying, Lucky
Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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.

Barbara Kingsolver
Funny, Life, Running

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Eggs, Perfect
Barbara Kingsolver, “Apotheosis”

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Views, Work Out
Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.85, Faber & Faber

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Different, Way
Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.444, Faber & Faber

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Religious, Long
Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.276, Faber & Faber

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Threatening, Enterprise
Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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 we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

Barbara Kingsolver
Life, Inspiring, Perfect
Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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