Sheri Ackerman

“What I’m learning is that you have to stop doing a whole lot of things to learn what it is you really love, who it is you really are.”
― Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

“He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Kindness is not the same as niceness, or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life, and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living

“It’s about learning to show up and let ourselves be seen just as we are, massively imperfect and weak and wild and flawed in a thousand ways, but still worth loving.”
― Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living