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

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I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

Barbara Kingsolver's Popular Quotes

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

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I prefer to remain anomalous.

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Downstream is always someone else's up.

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

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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…

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

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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.

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

- Barbara Kingsolver