Catherine Rodriguez

“Then, in the way of a fatherly sermon, he added, 'We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“Of course, now and then things linger...The charm of the past is that it is the past.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“This sounds as though I bemoan an older time, which is the preoccupation of the old, or cultivate an opposition to change, which is the currency of the rich and stupid. It is not so. This Seattle was not something changed that I once knew. It was a new thing. Set down there not knowing it was Seattle, I could not have told where I was. Everywhere frantic growth, a carcinomatous growth. Bulldozers rolled up the green forests and heaped the resulting trash for burning. The torn white lumber from concrete forms was piled beside gray walls. I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Do not look for answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet