Katrina Kenison Quotes

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• Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
• I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys…
• Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing…
• Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our defenses. We learn…
• One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's…
• We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
• Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is…
• It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ­­– the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish…
• At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.
• Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about…
• Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
• I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice,…
• Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.
• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the…
• As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go, I…
• I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.
• In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.
• we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we…
• One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location…
• When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are…

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