Favorite Quotes

Inside is a place
where springs
never dry up.
-Pearl Buck

The world
breaks everyone,
and afterward many
are strong in the
broken places.
-Ernest Hemingway



"My days and nights pour through me like complaints
and become a story I forgot to tell."
Marie Howie

I love it when authors talk to/interact with their heart. I love the poem "Heart, We will forget him" by Emily Dickenson and today I read the following from "Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne
"Poor little Faith!" thought he, for his heart smote him. "What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too."


On faith:
Toni Morrison: "If I try to imagine God's essence, and think, for example, of the infiniteness of time, I get lost in a mixture of dismay and excitement. I sense the order and harmony that suggest an intelliegence, and I discover, with a slight shiver, that my own language becomes evangelical."
Elie Wiesel: "I've had my moments of crisis, which have led me to study and argue with God, at times dramatically. . . Hasidism teaches that no heart is as whole as a broken heart, and I would say that no faith is as solid as a wounded faith."


"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen

Isn't this so true. My mom is famous for saying that a good cry and then a good night's sleep will fix just about anything. And a good run does miracles. The other night I wanted to be a bad mood - just for the fun of it - but after running a faster mile than ever (I always run faster when I'm in a bad mood) I felt so good. And yet so mad because I wasn't to feel bad.

"Most of us do not accept, or even believe in, the continual flux of life. However strange this may seem, once we truly accept this at a physical level, we will not need to search for certainty. . . As you tackle the tribulations of life, insight helps you refrain from taking yourself, your challenges, and life itself too seriously, because you will know that no matter what situation you are in, good or bad, it will change. This insight into the changing nature of the world will give you equanimity and joy." a quote by Kamal Sarma from Oprah Magazine

I love this quote because I tend to hold too tightly to happiness. I often think to myself that my life is so perfect right now and I don't want a thing to change. I want love and relationships to look the same tomorrow as they do right now. But when I squeeze them so tight, begging them not to change, I am denying that element part of the quintessentialness that I love so much about it. It's okay for love to different tomorrow than it did today - I suspect some tomorrows will bring an even more awe inspiring love and again, some days will bring a ebb of that love. But both the ebb and the flow are the point