Pete Orsi

“The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.”
― Richard Rohr, AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“to hide them. “A man is himself and no other”, Josip says. “He is an island in the sea of being. And each island is as no other. The islands are connected because they have come forth from the sea, and the sea flows between them. It separates them yet unites them, if they learn to swim.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World: A Novel

“Individual destiny is not produced machine-like from the “mills of the gods”. Nor are we characters in a morality play. We are works of art, each work distinct, each a phenomenon, the art laboring hand in hand with the Artist to create the story. We are inside a poem. No, we are the poem.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World: A Novel

“mother’s best friends. And she never failed to deliver a brief glimpse of eternity in every meeting, every conversation.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless