Steven Schlafman

@schlaf

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“ Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness-mine, yours, ours-need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.”

—Parker Palmer

quotes and Wholeness

@schlaf An all time favorite quote of mine “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it feels like an hour. Sit on a bench with a pretty woman for an hour and it feels like a minute. That’s relativity” Einstein

Andy Cloyd x.com

quotes and time

"Sadness will not kill you. Depression won’t, either. But fighting it will. Ignoring it will."

— Brianna Wiest

sadness and

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

Eric Carle

creativity and

“Some people keep their zest until the day they die. They keep a sense of curiosity. They care about things. They reach out. They enjoy. They risk failure.” — John W. Gardner

Curtis Kopf x.com

Curiosity and quotes

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more

Wisdom and

“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.”

—Carl Jung

quotes and

"No one is just a stage. And no measure can explain what it is like to be an individual human. What it is like to walk in your shoes, look through your eyes, feel your feelings and think your thoughts etc."

quotes and identity

Susanne Cook-Greuter