Jennifer

“Feeling far away from what we want tells us one of two things about our work: that we are at the beginning or that we have forgotten where we were going.”
― David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

“I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

“Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don’t mistake other people’s questions for your own.”
― David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

“Life can find you only if you are paying real attention to something other than you own concerns, if you can hear and see the essence of otherness in the world, if you can treat the world as if it is not just a backdrop to your own journey, if you can have a relationship with the world that isn't based on triumphing over it or complaining about it.”
― David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship