Quotes

I have come across some quotes recently that are currently surrounding my desk in sticky notes. But, since I am packing, I figured digitizing them would be more long term.

"We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves." Parker J. Palmer

The 3 Paradoxes of Life & Growing Up according to Courtney E. Martin (from a TEDtalk)
1. Rejecting the past and promptly reclaiming it.
2. Sobering up to our smallness and maintaining faith in our greatness all at once.
3. Aiming to succeed wildly and being fulfilled by failing really well.

In the fourth century, St. Gregory of Nyssa said that “sin is a refusal to keep growing up.”

"We are not called to be perfect, we are called to be human." (I forget her name from a TEDtalk.)