Matt Hodel

“Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Come, let's scatter roses and pour wine in the glass...
We'll shatter heaven's roof and lay a new foundation,
If sorrow raises armies to shed the blood of lovers...
I'll join with the wine bearer so we can overthrow them,
With a sweet string at hand, play a sweet song, my friend,
So we can clap and sing a song and lose our heads in dancing.”
― Hafiz