Quotes

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

― La Rochefoucauld

There are people that talk about things they love and people that talk about things they hate.

It’s the height of madness to worry about being despised by the despicable.

I love the quote from author Kent Nerburn that, “Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die.

“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives … But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is... See more

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

“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

“Let us expand, live much, and be many things, and

not shirk the complexity of the world or of ourselves.”

— Julian Jaynes