Quotations

I've been reading a lot this summer, and I'm sure there will be a post on that at some point, but for now, these are a few of the tidbits I'm chewing on.


"One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world." — Hans Margolius

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”--Rumi

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”--Marianne Williamson

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.--From "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver

 "Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest."--Geneen Roth

"What is to give light must endure burning."--Viktor Frankel

'It is time the stone made an effort to flower

time unrest had a beating heart,

it is time it were time.

It is time."--from "Corona" by Paul Celan

"Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life."--Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

"The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own."--Calum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

"Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?"--Kathryn Stockett, The Help