Barbara Kingsolver Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name. The Poisonwood Bible

2. Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. The Poisonwood Bible

3. In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

4. What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it. Small Wonder

5. For scientists, reality is not optional. Flight Behavior

6. Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is. Flight Behavior

7. 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. Animal Dreams

8. The very least you can do in your life is to 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. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides. Animal Dreams

9. Time cures you first, and then it kills you. The Lacuna

10. Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypseasleep in the shade of your future.Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: youcan pass off hope like a bad check.You still have time, that’s the thing.To make it good. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

11. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Animal Dreams