Marci’s most recent Quotables

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose —and commit myself to — what is best for me.”

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

‎"A crisis is like a low tide at the ocean. When the ocean recedes you can walk far out of the sand and see all manner of debris littering the ocean floor; but you also spot the occasional treasure - a pristine, glimmering shell buried in the sand."

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Know that the living out of your dreams means that you must experience the “low-lows” of the journey as well as the “high-highs” of the journey.

Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows. You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

"...if you merely adopt our principles as dry theories, do let us alone: we have millstones enough swinging at our necks already. Further, if you join us merely out of a sense of duty, we pray you keep aloof andgive place to those who leap into our ranks because they can not keep themselves out; who instead of whining about duty, shout privilege."

“And the day came when the wish to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand."

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.