Philosophy Quote by Barbara Kingsolver — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”

“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.”

“There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.”

“Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.”

“Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.”

“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play”

“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”

“This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat.”

“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”

“لولا جاذبية الأرض لطرنا في الهواء، ولولا مقاومتنا لها لسقطنا على الأرض.. فنحن نسير بالجاذبية ونقاومها، والسفينة تسير بالماء وتقاوم الأمواج، والطائرة تسير بالهواء وتقاوم الرياح”