Don’t try to make life a...

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.

- Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

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Other quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

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.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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