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"A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place."
"And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities."
"It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise."
"The earth provides us a brand new beginning every twenty-four hours. It is a repeated invitation to breathe in the cool morning air and start afresh; to mimic the sunrise and brighten up while reaching once more for the sky; to carry a glad song in our heart like the early birds; and, as faithfully as the morning dew, to wash off the dust from yesterday."
"There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow to a world that would be forever frigid, God cupped the hands of my soul and poured in the warmth of Christmas."
"The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged."
"When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree."
"The sky does not despair when a star falls, it makes room for a new one."
Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
"She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient."
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
"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."
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
"She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four."
"You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own."
"Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."
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