#in

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#dog #head #imperious #like #minute

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#drive #fact #fine #going #how

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#another #basic #crying #debris #embrace

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#find #ghetto #leap #over #wall

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. ↗

— Hugh Kingsmill

#cured #hanging #only #string #the only thing

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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#distance #figure #hope #inside #least

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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