"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

"Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"The very least you can do in your life is 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

"Hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."

- Barbara Kingsolver