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“Richard Rohr says the skills that take you through the first half of your life are entirely unhelpful for the second half. To press the point a little bit: those skills I developed that supposedly served me well for the first half, as I inspect them a little more closely, didn’t actually serve me at all. They made me responsible and capable and really, really tired. They made me productive and practical, and inch by inch, year by year, they moved me further and further from the warm, whimsical person I used to be . . . and I missed her. The”
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
― Little Bee
― Little Bee
“This is actually my life, and it doesn't matter a bit if it would be lovely for someone else to live. What does matter: does it feel congruent with how God made me and called me?”
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
“It's easy to be liked by strangers. It's very hard to be loved and connected to the people in your home when you're always bringing them your most exhausted self and resenting the fact that the scraps you're giving them aren't cutting it.”
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
“Many of us, myself, included, considered our souls necessary collateral damage to get done the things we felt we simply had to get get done - because of other people's expectations, because we want to be know as highly capable, because we're trying to outrun an inner emptiness. And for a while we don't even realize the compromise we've made. We're on autopilot, chugging through the day on fear and caffeine, checking things off the list, falling into bed without even a real thought or feeling or connection all day long, just a sense of having made it through.”
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
― Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Leah’s 2025 Year in Books
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