“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)”
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“It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and isolation are not where the surprises are. They are not where hope is.”
― Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
― Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
“There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.”
― All the Little Live Things
― All the Little Live Things
“One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.”
― Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
― Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
“It makes me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations.”
― If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
― If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
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