Author: Jennifer Sien

“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to do down the chute.” – Tina Fey

“All of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings. – Alain De Botton

“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” – Madeleine L. Engle

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. – Anne Lamott

“Beautiful things are difficult.” – Plato

“Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience.” – Chad Harbach

“If it is right, it happens — the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” – John Steinbeck

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words — wait and hope.” – Alexander Dumas

“Drop by drop is the picture filled.” – Buddha