Rachel

“Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough; now pause, now possession, is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart. The moment is all, in all noble relations.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are tyrannized by our options.”
― Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

“One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson