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Susan Wittig Albert quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: b. January 2, 1940

Birthday: January 2

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Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Topics: Grief, Writing, Mean, Grief And Loss

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Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

source: - Susan Wittig Albert (2009). “Wormwood”, p.35, Penguin

Topics: Real, Lying, Mean, Real Truth

Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.

Topics: Pain, Mean, Dark, Co Worker

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

Topics: Music

Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

Topics: Gratitude, Feelings, Joyful

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

Topics: Writing, Stories

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Even more remarkably, this healing is not just our own healing, it is the healing of all women. That's why, as we tell our stories to ourselves, it is also important to share them with others. This sharing brings a sense of kinship, of sisterhood. We understand that we are not alone in our efforts to become conscious, whole, healthy persons.

Topics: Writing, Healing, Simple, Healthy Person

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

Topics: Healing, Simple, Stories

Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart.

Topics: Heart, Unique, Self

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

source: - Susan Wittig Albert (2005). “The Tale of Hill Top Farm”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

Topics: Way, Breeze, Worst

One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

source: - Susan Wittig Albert (2003). “AN Unthymely Death”, p.70, Penguin

Topics: Weed, Flower, Wildflowers

I am often surprised when I think to count my graces, for the more I count, the more there seem to be. And if pride in my accomplishments is the emotion that I naturally feel when I focus on my gifts, gratitude is the emotion I feel as I become aware of the many graces that have shaped me and my gifts.

Topics: Gratitude, Pride, Thinking

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