Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Barbara Kingsolver's Popular Quotes

I prefer to remain anomalous.

- Barbara Kingsolver

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

Downstream is always someone else's up.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

- Barbara Kingsolver

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to li…

- Barbara Kingsolver

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

- Barbara Kingsolver

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

- Barbara Kingsolver