Christopher Kijowski

“Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have – and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.”
― Ed Robinson, Leap of Faith: Quit Your Job and Live on a Boat

“We mourn with those who mourn; weep with those in tears. John Ruusbroec, the fourteenth-century Dutch mystic, said “compassion is a wounding of the heart which love extends to all without distinction.” At the end of life, as at the beginning of life, we need communities of compassion to hold our pain.”
― Karen Speerstra, The Divine Art of Dying: How to Live Well While Dying

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
― John Burroughs

“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids