Jonathan

“So we are told to love. We are told to listen. We are told to look. But a lot of the time we don’t because we choose damn well not to, and because only a saint could do it all the time, I think. You have to choose who to listen to because if you listen to everybody and you look at everybody—seeing every face the way Rembrandt saw that woman’s face—how could you make it down half a city block? You couldn’t. If you listened to what everybody says to you, how could you survive a day? But we can do more than we do—more than we do, surely we could do that.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life

“May you live long enough to know why you were born.” —CHEROKEE BIRTH BLESSING”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me