#life

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#currency #endurance #life #my life #small

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#always #another #brains #carry #else

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#answering #back #being #call #child

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#asks #creates #empathy #eyes #fiction

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#become #bed #down #duration #life

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#expectancy #folks #life #life expectancy #live

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence. ↗

— John Kluge

#excellence #life #my life #philosophy #pursuit

I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#different things #glamorous #glamorous life #i #life

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#been #broken #figuring #find #heartbroken

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#everyone #fears #forget #i #jump