Ericka Hall

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill,
Keep sharpening your knife and it will be blunt
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
― Tao Te Ching

“Those who are in pain – most of the world’s populations at any given moment – do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot of what is said and written about suffering seems hollow to those actually in pain.”
― Luke Timothy Johnson, The Living Gospel