Kris

“I guess… okay, I’ll be totally honest: I am much better in a crisis. Spiritually, I mean. I can face down an existential crisis and stare at the apocalypse and feel enormous amounts of love and peace. But then the second that crisis is over, I feel like such a terrible person. Ordinary life - email, pickups, trying to find a new moisturizer - that stuff makes me feel so itchy. I feel disappointed in myself…. Because I want more. So much more….”
― Kate Bowler, Joyful, Anyway

“Every single person has a story, a battle, a lesson to teach, a bit of magic that makes them like no one else in the world. Ironically, it’s that same uniqueness that sometimes silences our voice, because the same gift that makes your voice special is often the very thing that may have labeled you as “weird” when you dared to let your strange and wonderful thoughts go free into the world—a world which E. E. Cummings rightly said “is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Memory has a geography, just like the world.”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark

“When did I decide that everyone else gets my best gifts? Why is my light always facing out and never in?”
― Kate Bowler, Joyful, Anyway