Bliss Quote by Ursula Hegi

Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of…

— Mira Bartok

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

— Pam Houston

On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity.…

— Rodney Crowell

“In the midst of the darkness of loss, I found light. Admittedly, in those first weeks, it might have been but a single small…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our…

— Julian of Norwich

“Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling where alone I sing my tearful song which has charms only for me.”

— Charles Brugnot

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...

— C. S. Lewis

“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and everything dead…

— Robert Hass

“Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that strange night…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens, and your…

— Christina Baker Kline

“but now it all floods back—the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her”

— Alex Flinn

“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure…

— J.R.R. Tolkien