“Let’s be courageous in these days. Let’s choose love and rest and grace. Let’s use our minutes and hours to create memories with the people we love instead of dragging them on one more errand or shushing them while we accomplish one more seemingly necessary thing.”
― Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are
― Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Innovation is a by-product of empathy.”
― Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly
― Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly
“When I’ve regretting saying something on the internet, it’s never been about love. I’ve never regretting loving or encouraging or celebrating something. I have often regretted slamming or dismissing or criticizing something, because when I do that online, it’s outside of relationship, outside of shared understanding, outside of context. I”
― Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are
― Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are
“To Take Back a Life
First, you must learn desire. Hold its
fruit in your hands. Unmarry it from
the hunger to be held, to be wanted, to
be called from the streets like the family
dog. You are not a 'good girl.' You are not
somebody's otherness. This is not a dress
rehearsal before a better kind of life.
Pick up your heavy burdens and leave
them at the gate. I will hold the door for
you.”
― What Kind of Woman: Poems
First, you must learn desire. Hold its
fruit in your hands. Unmarry it from
the hunger to be held, to be wanted, to
be called from the streets like the family
dog. You are not a 'good girl.' You are not
somebody's otherness. This is not a dress
rehearsal before a better kind of life.
Pick up your heavy burdens and leave
them at the gate. I will hold the door for
you.”
― What Kind of Woman: Poems
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