It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the… — Jessamyn West Change Copy Share Image
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a… — Jessamyn West Grinder Copy Share Image
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. — Jessamyn West Animal Copy Share Image
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life. — Jessamyn West Book Copy Share Image
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words… — Jessamyn West Communication Copy Share Image
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. — Jessamyn West Awakening Copy Share Image
