“It’s really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“It’s really a whole new feeling when you realize you’re in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions—or inaction.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“You just don’t know what’s really going on in a marriage unless it’s yours.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“helped along by doing yoga together after a huge workout”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
Kaira Rouda
Born place: in Evanston, Illinios, The United States
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“[John C.] Calhoun was a minority spokesman in a democracy, a particularist in an age of nationalism, a slaveholder in an age of advancing liberties, and an agrarian in a furiously capitalistic country. His weakness was to be inhumanly schematic and logical, which is only to say that he thought as he lived. His mind, in a sense, was too masterful - it imposed itself upon realities. The great human, emotional, moral complexities of the world escaped him because he had no private training for them, had not even the talent for friendship, in which he might have been schooled. It was easier for him to imagine, for example, that the South had produced upon its slave base a better culture than the North because he had no culture himself, only a quick and muscular mode of thought. It may stand as a token of Calhoun's place in the South's history that when he did find culture there, at Charleston, he wished a plague upon it.”
― Richard Hofstadter, quote from The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
“To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.
On both perhaps.”
― Albert Camus, quote from A Happy Death
“Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.”
― Evan S. Connell, quote from Mrs. Bridge
“And I think that if you are lucky enough to give and receive love, then you can be happy in the face of suffering. I was talking to a friend about this and we decided that maybe heaven is just that...love. And that heaven exists on a day-to-day basis within people. When they give and receive love, that's a little slice of heaven.”
― quote from The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding
“I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.”
― Adrienne Rich, quote from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
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