Gracie

“Our hearts are not pure:
our hearts are filled with need
and greed as much as with love and grace,
and we wrestle with our hearts all the time.
The wrestling is who we are.
How we wrestle is who we are.
What we want to be is never what we are.
Not yet. Maybe that's why we have these
relentless engines in our chests, driving us forward
toward what we might be."
Orion (Jan/Feb 2005)”
― Brian Doyle

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“We are all searching for the fairy tale. When it doesn't come, we try to create it.”
― Linda Masemore Pirrung, Explosion in Paris

“It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again