P Kellach Waddle

“The hard silence between frustrated people always feels cluttered. But holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down. We offer it to ourselves when we work, rest, meditate, bike, read. When we hike by ourselves, we hear a silence still pristine with crunching leaves and birdsong. Silence can be a system of peace, which is mercy, easily offered to a friend needing quiet, harder when the person is one's own annoying self.”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy