“Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.”
Source: The Other Side of Midnight
“A loving heart hesitates to acknowledge the cloud that might shadow its joy. While that hesitation cannot banish the cloud, neither does it create the shadow”
Source: A Sparrow Alone
“These vines are my calendar. Bare in the winter, budding in the spring, shady in the summer, and tasty in the fall.”
Source: These Yellow Sands: Memories of Manteo
“We call politicians representatives in the spirit of democracy, yet many of us also refer to them as leaders, suggesting that we, the people, are expected to be led.”
Source: Why We Follow: Natural Followership in a World Obsessed with Leadership
“A person can only be a leader if someone chooses to follow them.”
Source: Why We Follow: Natural Followership in a World Obsessed with Leadership
“Fun fact—fifteen minutes of walking per day has been shown to lower your risk of heart disease by 33 percent.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“Resting your attention on a single breath is a victory: one inhale and one exhale.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“You don’t even have to lift your head from between your knees to take a breath, and you know you can manage that much, even with poison in your veins.”
“Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.”
“Breath puts a sliver of light between impact and reflex. That’s the endgame of all that meditation-breathing stuff: interrupting knee-jerk impulsivity.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose