Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
Barbara KingsolverRead
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Interpretation
Memory can distort the truth, as it is influenced by personal perceptions and experiences.
This quote by Barbara Kingsolver emphasizes the complex nature of memory in relation to truth. While memory is often seen as a record of events, it is subjective and can be shaped by emotions, beliefs, and context, making it unlike the objective, unwavering essence of truth.
In practice
During a discussion on how personal experiences shape our views, one might reference this quote to illustrate the complexity of memory.
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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.
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else.
We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.
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