Famous Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.”

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”

The most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you can change yourself.

In the end, we’ll remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The earth is what we all have in common.

Don’t try to make life perfect. You will never succeed. Instead, make it good.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

The most essential thing in the world is to love your life, and live it with passion.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. There’s no such thing as a world that doesn’t require effort.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Human beings are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

If you want to be free, you have to let go of everything that weighs you down.

The peace we are looking for is always available to us, as long as we are willing to make it a priority.

We are not as endlessly fascinating as we think we are.

Every day you have a choice: to either grow or wither.

Art is a way of seeing, a way of being, and a way of speaking to the world.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

There is no greater gift than to learn that you can help others.

In a world of unspeakable cruelty, beauty is a reprieve.

The world is a beautiful place, but it’s not necessarily a good place to live in.