Patchwork Lives Quotes by Shellen Lubin

“I've written about persistence and perseverance and yet for those of us with patchwork lives (projects, earnings, caretaking, home-tending, playing, friending, loving, celebrating, hurting,…

— Shellen Lubin

“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemic that I am witnessing some and experiencing some, a diminished ability to deal…

— Shellen Lubin

“When I talk about persistence, it isn't about persistence of equal measure every day. It's about not giving up on whatever is important to…

— Shellen Lubin

“When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.”

— Shellen Lubin

“It's not that there is nothing real to fear-- it is that fear itself is not rationally based-- it's projecting into the future-- as…

— Shellen Lubin

“How do any of us find the strength to keep going? Because the work itself is empowering and fulfilling. And because we are not…

— Shellen Lubin

“I think there is a place where hopefulness and hopelessness co-exist, one of my beloved contradictory co-existing realities (what others call a paradox, but paradoxes…

— Shellen Lubin

“Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, shit, you need it to grow the crops.…

— Shellen Lubin

“It's been a relief to not have to fight so hard for at least a large group of us to question the old orthodoxy.…

— Shellen Lubin

“This is a critical year--maybe the last critical year if we get this wrong--when we are all challenged to recognize how we have benefitted…

— Shellen Lubin

“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemicthat I am witnessing someand experiencing some,a diminished ability to deal with resistance,and soa…

— Shellen Lubin

“We live in anxious times, my love, anxiety-producing times. It doesn't mean we have to be anxious, but if we've got it, we've got…

— Shellen Lubin