Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

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EmpathyPeopleLiteratureYouBehave

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

Jesse Harris

LoveGuitarLearnPlayYoungFirst

My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.

Stipe Miocic

WorkDayJobMeHometownLong

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Robert Fulghum

CommunitySolitudeSolutionMore

People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.

Robin S. Sharma

WorkPeopleOrganizationProudFeel

So I want to make money. I think it's an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can't ask for that. But why not?

Mary Lambert

MoneyThinkGoalWantWhyAsk

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

LifeDeathHouseBuildYourLabour

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

Lori Foster

FutureChildrenFocusEyeBlindNow

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

Lou Gramm

ExperiencePeopleMeKnowRealOut

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Johnny Depp

RideThinkEnjoyYouI ThinkThing

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Donella Meadows

StrengthCourageWarAmazingSociety

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

William Stafford

MeLike

In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.

Pico Iyer

LiveNightBookYouBodyDark

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