128 Quotes by Joan D. Chittister

But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.

This compulsion to look back, to explain to myself, to others, why I did what I did – or, worse, to justify why I didn’t do something else – is one of the most direct roads to depression we have. Our thoughts, emotions, and attitudes, according to Dr. Andrew Weil in his book Healthy Aging, are “key determinants of how we age.” They can threaten the quality of time we bring to the present.