Retreats Quotes

“Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.”
― Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman

“Having margins in your life strips away external voices and allows that person to remember and honor the true self within.”
― Angela Lynne Craig, Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change

“To try, and maybe be wrong, without consequences to anyone but herself; this was one of the treasures she wanted from her retreat. It's was the kind of possibility that would usually get lost in the forest of her responsibilities.”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Time Slipping