If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. ― Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer Public Domain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sena Jeter Naslund
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Quote for Today: Bella Vespira
What is it about the Heavens that draws us to look up? For generations, centuries, (millennia?) it seems we are drawn to look up for answers, comfort in times of despair, with pleas for help, when we are in need of grace, and to give thanks. ―Bella Vespira, Evidence of Things Unseen Public Domain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bella Vespira
Quote for Today: Jennifer Rodewald
Sometimes it’s easier to give compassion to those whose troubles fell upon them undeserved. But those who’ve, from our perspective, tangled themselves up all on their own—they need compassion every bit as much. You who are without sin, cast the first stone… No one did. Because you can’t grasp a stone while keeping a grip … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jennifer Rodewald
Quote for Today: Robert Sapolsky
Going easy on ourselves also reflects a key cognitive fact: we judge ourselves by our internal motives and everyone else by their external actions. And thus, in considering our own misdeeds, we have more access to mitigating situational information. This is straight out of Us/Them--when Thems do something wrong, it's because they're simply rotten; when … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert Sapolsky
Quote for Today: Em Claire
Oh, the best dancers know what grace every stumble contains. ―Em Claire, Silent, Sacred, Holy, Deepening Heart Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Rick Bass
How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. ―Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had Public Domain Image via PxHere
Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing from a limb and not falling, accelerating thirty-two feet per second, through empty air. Just a breath before he would have been dashed to the ground, he unfurled his wings with … Continue reading Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; … Continue reading Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
Quote for Today: Simone Weil
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass. ―Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace Public Domain Image via Pexels.com
Quote for Today: Frederick Buechner
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. ―Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace Public Domain Image via Pixabay