Kellie Garrett

“Judge [people] not by what they are, but by what they strive to become.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are
And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right now,
Not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you’re striving to become.
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You’re already more and less
Than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, touch in, let go.”
― John Welwood

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar