Quotes

If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr

“There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that… [but] there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about." - Marie-Louise von Franz

“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.” — Vincent van Gogh

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

- Mary Oliver