
“Giving approval and/or receiving sanction from others limits, slows, stagnates. It stupefies the mind and heart.” -Amy Larson, amylarson.com
My copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s complete works is marked up with a zillion underlines and notes in the margins. It is colored with strips of sticky notes poking out of the top and sides of the volume. And his essay ‘Self-Reliance’ has been one of my greatest sources of strength as a single mother […]
Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest […]