Barbara Kingsolver quotes
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.Perseverance Life Hope
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.Friendship
I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.Learning
God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.God Life Religion
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.Life
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.Forgiveness Change
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.Simile Sadness
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.Life
All Barbara Kingsolver quotes ⇑
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. 
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. 
I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room. 
God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. 
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. 
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. 
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. 
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. 
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.