“And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be”

“Nothing is more exhausting than the task that’s never started.”

“Every woman I knew seemed to think she was failing in some way, had been raised to believe she was lacking, and was certain someone else was doing it better. Had been told never to trust her own instincts. Taught to think of life as a solution when "done right", when in reality we existed in a kaleidoscope made of shades of gray, able to be very happy and very sad all at the same time.”

“When things are not happening as planned just stop worrying and take an unplanned break to regain yourself.”

“We never really know what others are going through or have been through. Sometimes even the hapiest of souls can be ones suffering the worst pain. We all have our difficulties, our struggles and heartache. They're part of our story. The have a part to play in the people we become, but they don't define who we are.”

“The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.”

“This hurts too much to touch with words.”

“Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to make ourselves useful, to set aside our tense restlessness, to set aside our media-satiated boredom. Sabbath is the time to receive silence and let it deepen into gratitude, to receive quiet into which forgotten faces and voices unobtrusively make themselves present, to receive the days of the just completed week and absorb the wonder and miracle still reverberating from each one, to receive our Lord's amazing grace.”