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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 03e511d | They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| dc68847 | I will never understand it," she said. "We're the top of our food chain, so you'd think we'd relate to those guys the best. Seems like we'd be trying to talk them into trade agreements." Eddie laughed at that. "So you're telling me that as a kid, you were rooting for the wolf to eat the Riding Hood babe?" "My last name was Wolfe. I took it all kind of personally." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1d57ec0 | Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a73b40b | Holding and synthesizing information in your brain creates your personality. You're surrendering your personality to an electronic device in your pocket. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a3b1123 | Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6c4994e | A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 87b4e46 | Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a card.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 15da5a6 | animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people. | people | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| f8a29dd | In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4df1ecb | Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness. I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there .. | women wife-and-husband wives wife women-s-roles | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| cc23483 | Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 514fe7b | Zeke embodied the contradiction of his generation: jaded about the fate of the world, idealistic about personal prospects. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1d7fa81 | Plus," Tig said, "it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting." "For people to die?" "Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like there would always be plenty of everything." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6e151c6 | When the rain pours down especially, we have long hours of captivity, in which my sisters determinedly grow bored. But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them. Everyone else will finish with the singular plowing through, and Ada still has discoveries ahead and behind. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9b82293 | I thought I'd had a pretty hard life. But I keep finding out that life can be hard in ways I never knew about. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 73aaa5a | The thing is, Mom, the secret of happiness is low expectations. That's a good reminder, right there. If you didn't lose your husband and kids all in one year, smile! You're ahead of the game. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1b3f3fb | We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires. | dreams desire | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| bb547ab | A person can succeed and fail at the same time. Maybe letting me down was your way of getting me to be me. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 05fc057 | When my generation of women walked away from the kitchen we were escorted down that path by a profiteering industry that knew a tired, vulnerable marketing target when they saw it. "Hey, ladies," it said to us, "go ahead, get liberated. We'll take care of dinner." They threw open the door and we walked into a nutritional crisis and genuinely toxic food supply. If you think toxic is an exaggeration, read the package directions for handling r.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 89715a6 | Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8354103 | She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she liked. | theory-of-everything | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| f255cf2 | she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 62a72d0 | And you came over to make sure I was all right, is that what you're telling me? You came over here with your shotgun to protect me from my scarecrow?" "I had to," Garnett said, spreading his hands, throwing himself on her mercy. "I didn't care for the way Buddy was looking at you in your short pants." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f842fd9 | Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8fe5649 | Today I choose happiness. The circumstances of my life may go up and down, for the mortal world is changeable. The immortal world, however, is changeless, for there there is only love. I build my house on the rock of the immortal world. Today I choose only immortal thoughts. I extend my perception beyond what my senses perceive, to what my heart knows is true. I withdraw my belief that I need anyone or anything to be other than what they ar.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a3b5aa8 | We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 5b93240 | There's a difference between obsession and passion. One form of emotional oppression of women is the cheap and automatic labeling of passionate emotion as obsession, something neurotic and wrong. If an artist like Aretha Franklin sings about love from the bottom of her gut, we call it genius. If an ordinary woman talks about love from the bottom of her gut, we call it co-dependent, obsessed, or over-wrought. This leads women to distrust ou.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 8573a63 | It helps to ask ourselves why we choose to play so small when we don't have to. Belief is powerful, and whatever we believe, we will subconsciously make manifest. So why do we hold on to core beliefs about ourselves that are so demeaning? When we ask that question, the answers emerge: "My family told me it wasn't okay to think I was a big deal." "I thought people wouldn't like me if I 'had it all.'" "I thought it might hurt my father's feel.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ac4ea74 | I surrender my fears and burdens to God. I needn't carry into my day the burdens of my existence. Rather, I surrender them into the hands of God. I know that they will be lifted from me, for what I place on the altar in my mind is then altered in my life. When I do not know what to say or do, He who is alive within me will illumine my thinking and guide my words. When a possible outcome makes me weak with fear, I will feel His arms around m.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 8a202ff | When physical proximity no longer supports the highest level of teaching and learning between them, the assignment will call for physical separation. What then appears to be the end of the relationship however, is not really an end. Relationships are eternal. They are of the mind, not the body, since people are energy, not | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 83ef5b7 | anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| c2a692d | Healing occurs in the present, not the past. We're not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we'e not giving in the present. There's a lot of talk today about people growing up in dysfunctional homes, but who didn't grow up in a dysfunctional home? This world is a dysfunction. However, there's nothing we've been through or seen or done that cannot be used to make our lives more valuable now. We can grow f.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 205beef | GRATITUDE FOR THE BODY 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 | ||
| 730e378 | Christ refers to the common thread of divine love that is the core and essence of every human mind. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ebe0511 | I didn't know, until reading A Course in Miracles, that a miracle is a reasonable thing to ask for. I didn't know that a miracle is just a shift in perception. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 01adc2c | Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 887f617 | There's a biblical story where Jesus says we can build our house on sand or we can build it on rock. Our house is our emotional stability. When it is built on sand, then the winds and rain can tear it down. One disappointing phone call and we crumble; one storm and the house falls down. When our house is built on rock, then it is sturdy and strong and the storms can't destroy it. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 0dbeafd | Love heals the body. Look at any woman on the day after she was made love to by a man she adores, and who adores her too. A man's body might register a difference, but a woman's body literally transforms in ways a man's does not seem to do. Our breasts, our skin, not to mention our faces, are filled with some voluptuous spirit. Both men and women walk a little bit above the sidewalk on days that follow our better nights. If there was enough.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 67619f2 | But remember, there's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 82b8da0 | To surrender to God means to let go and just love. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ad914db | But the Holy Spirit is a force of consciousness within us that "delivers us from Hell," or fear, whenever we consciously ask Him to, working with us on the Causal level, transforming our thoughts from fear to love." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 00117bf | The term crucifixion means the energy pattern of fear. It represents the limited, negative thinking of the ego, and how it always seeks to limit, contradict or invalidate love. The term resurrection means the energy pattern of love, which transcends fear by replacing it. A miracle worker's function is forgiveness. In performing our function, we become channels for resurrection. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 8e24638 | It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 5768328 | A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time. Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic. Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are. | honesty friendship | Marianne Williamson |