Shaina Perkkio

“How little not how much I can get along with. To say is it necessary when I’m tempted to add one more accumulation to my life. When I am pulled toward one more centrifugal Activity. Simplification of outward life is not enough. It is merely the outside, but I am starting with the outside. I am looking at the outside of a shell. The outside of my life-the shell. The complete answer is not to be found on the outside in an outward mode of living. This is only a technique- a road to grace. The final answer, I know, is always inside.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“The interrelatedness of the world links us constantly with more people than our heart can hold. Or rather, for I believe the heart is infinite, modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living, and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, monitoring the ongoing development of our personal brand, time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on “nothing.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy