Saturn Return Quotes

“The old generation is going. What will the new bring us? What shall we ourselves contribute? <...> Destiny says to us: "Show what is in thee! Now is the moment, now is the hour, else fall back into nothingness! It is thy turn! Give the world thy measure, say thy word, reveal thy nullity or thy capacity. Come forth from the shade! It is no longer a question of promising, thou must perform. The time of apprenticeship is over. Servant, show us what thou hast done with thy talent. Speak now, or be silent forever.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal

“I feel as I were disintegrating and "growing up", whatever that means, simultaneously.”
― James Agee , Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

“Sometimes I think the Most High believes I can shoulder the weight of 1000 stars.”
― Brandi L. Bates

“Saturn Returns usually happen between ages twenty-eight and thirty and fifty-eight and sixty. Those are the ages at which you lose your illusions and mistaken ways of thinking to take great steps forward. If this time is used well, you can take a quantum leap. If you can focus on your inner voice through Having at these ages, the effects will be dramatically greater.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich

“There is a Buddhist term that means ‘mutual pecking’. It means that as a chick pecks from inside its egg, the mother hen simultaneously pecks the shell from outside to break it. All of your pain in Saturn Return helps you break out of your egg. When you break through your shell to come out into the real world, you can use fortune to the utmost to change your life.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich