Quotes

Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly... No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

— Pat Barker

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."

(Ursula K. Le Guin)

Life cannot be made to conform to a system, it cannot be forced into a framework, however nobly conceived; and a mind that has merely been trained in factual knowledge is incapable of meeting life with its variety, its subtlety, its depths and great heights.

— Krishnamurti

What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

— William Stafford

“ Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic .”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

— George Eliot, 1879