Your Heart's Strength

“Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. 

Your self-worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. 

However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.”

~ Shannon L. Alder

Do Not Hold Your Breath For Anyone

“Do not hold your breath for anyone,

Do not wish your lungs to be still,

It may delay the cracks from spreading,

But eventually they will.

Sometimes to keep yourself together

You must allow yourself to leave,

Even if breaking your own heart

Is what it takes to let you breathe.”

~ Erin Hanson

The Single Greatest Lesson

“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches 

is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, 

and that as long as the sun still shines 

and people still can plan and plant,

 think and do, we can, if we bother to try, 

find ways to provide for ourselves 

without diminishing the world. ”

~ Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: 

A Natural History of Four Meals

My Dad Had Limitations

“My dad had limitations. 

 What my good-hearted mom always told us. 

He had limitations, but he meant no harm. 

It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”

~ Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Two Separate Beings

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances, 

face to face in freedom and seeking justification 

of their existence through one another, 

will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.”

~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex