Mary Alex Pooler

“Brother Lawrence did so in the kitchen of a French monastery over three hundred years ago. Instead of resenting the monotony and smallness of his chores, Brother Lawrence decided to seek God’s presence always and in everything. He writes, “Men invent means and methods of coming at God’s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God’s presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?”2”
― Holley Gerth, Fiercehearted: Live Fully, Love Bravely

“And in America you can go to a store twenty-four hours a day, any time you want. There is always something happening, even at night.”
― Joseph Kim, Under the Same Sky: A Memoir of Survival, Hope, and Faith

“No one would choose this sort of painful adolescence, but the fact is that the solitude of Woz’s teens, and the single-minded focus on what would turn out to be a lifelong passion, is typical for highly creative people.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I’ve always said there are no mysteries, only things we don’t yet know; but lately I’ve thought not even knowledge takes all strangeness from the world.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent