“Plainness was not necessarily simplicity,” Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. “Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is so. To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.” My”
― Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
― Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
“want to be a “Me too” friend. I want to be a “Me too” mom and wife. A safe place where people can share their fears and struggles and find refuge and empathy, rather than pity or shame. Maybe”
― It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose
― It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose
“How we need more “homemakers” so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good. So”
― The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
― The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
“When there is love to be given, I will resist the impulse to decide if I have time, because I know there is always, always time for love.”
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
“It is not always possible for me to choose love in the midst of challenging situations, but I can definitely try to soften—soften my voice, my touch, my opinion, and my timetable.”
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
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