"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."

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"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."

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"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

Time

"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

Philosophy

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

Reflection

"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

Life

"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

Philosophy

"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."

Knowledge

"It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself."

Psychology

"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."

Nature

"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."

Philosophy

"Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother."

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"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."

"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."

"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."

"Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you."

"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."

Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."

"It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself."

"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."

"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."

"Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother."

"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."