Zach Kirshner
- The joy of aging isn’t about abandoning our youth, it’s about balancing learned wisdom with childlike wonder, grounded confidence with conscious curiosity, and innate depth with delicious delight.
from Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead? by Amanda R. Martinez
There are some things that spontaneity simply cannot offer—a steadiness and stability which, at its very least, has the emotional reward of familiarity and, at best, creates the possibility of investing time with special meaning, experience with special value, and life with a moment of transcendence.
from How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household by Blu Greenberg
there is one thing we can draw from where we are now and where we were then, it is that the unimaginable is ordinary, that the way forward is almost never a straight line you can glance down but a convoluted path of surprises, gifts, and afflictions you prepare for by accepting your blind spots as well as your intuitions.
from Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
- One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.
from What’s going on here, with this human? by Graham Duncan Blog
Pretty much everything in life is like this: there are some ways you can show up that just feel better. And when you show up for the truest and most beautiful version of your life that you can imagine, you feel excited and alive.
from not disappointing myself by Ava
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value
from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding
from Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by cheryl strayed
- When you look back at the most fruitful moments of your life years from now, you’ll be surprised to discover how many of them unfolded amid a big loss or a crisis or in the face of a giant unknown.
from Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger by Heather Havrilesky