"Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not accept money."
--author unknown
Monday, January 27, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Quote Collection
Beautiful quotes from my current stack of books:
Story
"Telling our stories is holy work."
---Reverend Nancy Lane, Ph.D.
"Owning our story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it....only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."
---Brene Brown
Repetition
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself---in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
---Elizabeth Bowen
"Repetition is not failure.
Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
There is no expected pace for inner learning. What we need to learn comes when we need it, no matter how old or young, no matter how many times we have to start over, no matter how many times we have to learn the same lesson. No one really likes this, of course, but we deal with our dislikes in the same way, again and again, until we learn what we need to know about the humility of acceptance."
---Mark Nepo
Compassion
"I don't believe compassion is our default response. I think our first response to pain---ours or someone else's---is to self-protect. We protect ourselves by looking for someone or something to blame. Or sometimes we shield ourselves by turning to judgment or by immediately going into fix-it mode."
---Brene Brown
"When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience the fear of our pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us."
---Pema Chodron
Story
"Telling our stories is holy work."
---Reverend Nancy Lane, Ph.D.
"Owning our story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it....only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."
---Brene Brown
Repetition
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself---in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
---Elizabeth Bowen
"Repetition is not failure.
Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
There is no expected pace for inner learning. What we need to learn comes when we need it, no matter how old or young, no matter how many times we have to start over, no matter how many times we have to learn the same lesson. No one really likes this, of course, but we deal with our dislikes in the same way, again and again, until we learn what we need to know about the humility of acceptance."
---Mark Nepo
Compassion
"I don't believe compassion is our default response. I think our first response to pain---ours or someone else's---is to self-protect. We protect ourselves by looking for someone or something to blame. Or sometimes we shield ourselves by turning to judgment or by immediately going into fix-it mode."
---Brene Brown
"When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience the fear of our pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us."
---Pema Chodron
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Forward
I receive a lot of forwarded emails from my mom. She will correct me to say, "A few." And she will quantify exactly how many are in a few, how many are in several, and whether my grammar is correct. It usually ain't. (Hi, Mom.)
So fun so fun so fun.
Some of these emails are political, some are religious, but the best ones are titled I THOUGHT SHE WOULD LIKE THIS and include a video of puppies interacting with lions in a seemingly natural way. These are for me to show to my daughter.
Today's email was titled WE WERE ALL HOME SCHOOLED and at the bottom, was a quote unrelated to the actual email. Sort of like getting a video of a lion and a puppy playing, and at the bottom it might say, "God Bless America."
Anyway, I liked the quote. It went:
So fun so fun so fun.
Some of these emails are political, some are religious, but the best ones are titled I THOUGHT SHE WOULD LIKE THIS and include a video of puppies interacting with lions in a seemingly natural way. These are for me to show to my daughter.
Today's email was titled WE WERE ALL HOME SCHOOLED and at the bottom, was a quote unrelated to the actual email. Sort of like getting a video of a lion and a puppy playing, and at the bottom it might say, "God Bless America."
Anyway, I liked the quote. It went:
"Faith is not about everything turning out ok. It's about being ok, no matter how things turn out."
Shaz-am. God Bless America.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Discovery
Unanimous conclusion at the dinner table tonight:
Goat's milk is not as delicious as goat's cheese.
Goat's milk is not as delicious as goat's cheese.
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