Cara

“But the modern-day church doesn’t like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we’ve got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished—proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“I am rather amused that crab grass is millet, and I pass the fact along because it may come in handy in some doomsday future when those who have survived the nuclear war some of our politicians think is ‘winnable’ will be scratching around looking for a crop of edible grain whose ‘survivability’ is only too well known.”
― Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden

“For most of us, the real aim isn’t to enjoy a few pleasures right now, but to build habits that will make us happy over the long term. Sometimes, that means giving up something in the present, or demanding more from ourselves.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

“leisure must be entered on the schedule as its own activity; it’s not something I get only when I have nothing else to do. Because I always have something else to do.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life