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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| abb2e26 | Did you know that half of all people are below average? | Garrison Keillor | ||
| b6b4647 | Communism? Most people have no idea what it is. I do not exaggerate. Look around this restaurant, ask any of these fine citizens. 'Excuse me, sir, I've been thinking of an idea, a bunch of working people owning the means of their own production. What do you make of that?' You know, he might be all for it. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5957b40 | You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e23b68a | Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall. | ww-ii | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 2d3628e | The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d299137 | A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners like ghosts. They shift like chimeras. Careful words of warning reverse themselves like truth and newspaper stories, becoming their own opposites. An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bit.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0eaa3d7 | Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 76719d0 | These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and fruits and proud naked Indians in a history without shame. Their great city of Tenochtitlan is still here beneath our shoes and history was always just like today full of markets and wanting. | méxico | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 18eb4ba | Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean. | inspiring kindness revenge | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 669b16e | 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. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4643f89 | His scent burst onto her brain like a rain of lights, causing her to know him perfectly. This is how moths speak to each other. The wrong words are impossible when there are no words. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3ac773a | AS LONG AS I KEPT MOVING, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop. The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill. My body understo.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 762b1c3 | Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it. | luck lucky-people the-lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 07c9c05 | First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark like muscular animals overgrown beyond all reason. Every space is filled with life: delicate, poisonous frogs war-painted like skeletons, clutched in copulation, secreting their precious eggs onto dripping leaves. Vines strangling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle for sunlight. The breathing of monkeys. A g.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d3eab50 | a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. this forest eats itself and lives forever. | forest nature | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| e061efd | Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f765485 | The talkers are rising above the thinkers. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9551270 | If chained is where you have been, your ams will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from. | personal-history | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 6192b25 | Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 65f5afd | we sang in church " "! Which means | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c6dcc37 | This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d8b232c | Nobody had planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. He must have lacked faith in mankind's follow-through capabilities, on the day he created flowers. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 834a577 | They couldn't close out the whole world, maybe, but they could sure find something on their TV or radio to put scientists or foreigners or whatever they thought he was in a bad light. Truly, they were no better than the city people always looking down on southerners ... If people played their channels right, they could be spared from disagreement for the length of their natural lives. Finally she got it. The need for so many channels. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 474dfb4 | Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. | environment food-security | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 5404670 | Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. --Marianne Williamson | Alyson Noel | ||
| b8f1eec | I greet all whom I meet today with the love of God. It can be a kind smile, an understanding pause, a touch of a hand that makes all the difference in how someone's day unfolds. I wish to be a conduit of love to those I meet, that I might know a softer way of being and a deeper sense of peace. Let me remember today that all of us are in need of love, both those who make it obvious and those who make it easy to forget. Whether showing their .. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 4d61d74 | Negativity poisons my mind, and positivity restores it. I have a choice whether to join in the darkness of the world, its petty judgments, and constant blame. When I do so I inject my psyche with poison, and today I choose a healthy mind. I replace all negativity with a positive attitude, in which I seek to find, and to articulate, the good in every heart. If I disagree, I will disagree with honor. If I debate a point, I will debate with re.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 36dbedc | The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you. | blessings-quotes charity compassion empathy generosity giving inner-peace kindness peace-of-mind power-of-love power-of-thoughts prayer prayer-quotes prayerful-habits prayerful-life prayers-answered prosperity selflessness sharing thoughtful wish-creation wishes-fulfilled | Marianne Williamson | |
| 1090fee | I give this day to you, the fruit of my labor and the desires of my heart. In your hands I place all questions, on your shoulders I place all burdens. I pray for my brothers and for myself. May we return to love. May our minds be healed. May we all be blessed. May we find our way home from pain to peace, from fear to love, from hell to heaven. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and forever. Amen. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| cab7288 | If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 26ba0be | We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present. --MARIANNE WILLIAMSON | Amy Morin | ||
| c43f5ee | May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a463828 | Grandiosity is always a cover for despair. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d39fa20 | The shift from fear to love is a miracle. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 2320168 | I pray for guidance and strength today, to become the person I long to be and do the things I long to do. I honor the imprint of God upon my soul, and the yearning of my heart to follow the path He lays before me. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d6eaba9 | We came here to co-create with God by extending love. Life spent with any other purpose in mind is meaningless, contrary to our nature, and ultimately painful. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 3f3f7cf | The wicked stepmother, which is the ego, can put the Sleeping Beauty or Christ within us to sleep, but she can never destroy it. What is created by God is indestructible. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 224e58a | An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 8873b5e | Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect. | men | Marianne Williamson | |
| bb27de2 | The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| c1d32ca | The process of miraculous change is twofold. One: I see my error or dysfunctional pattern. Two: I ask God to take it from me. The first principle without the second is impotent. As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, your best thinking got you here. You're the problem but you're not the answer. The second principle isn't enough to change us either. The Holy Spirit can't take from us what we will not release to him. He won't work withou.. | free-will inspiration miracles | Marianne Williamson | |
| b46480e | Dear God, As I rise up, I thank You for the opportunity to be on this earth. I thank You for my mind and body, I thank You for my life. Please bless my body and use it for Your purposes. May I rise up strong today, and may my body and soul radiate Your love. May all impurities be cast out of my mind, my heart, my body. May every cell of my being be filled with Your light. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 650f283 | It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling. | bowling leaning sports | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | |
| be227ea | A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied." | Amy Krouse Rosenthal |