103 Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you’ve ever been given is yours forever.

Perhaps winning requires that we love the game unconditionally. Life provides all the pieces. When I accepted certain parts of life and denied and ignored the rest, I could only see my life a piece at a time – the happiness of a success or a time of celebration, or the ugliness and pain of a loss or a failure I was trying hard to put behind me out of sight. But like the dark pieces of the puzzle, these sadder events, painful as they are, have proven themselves a part of something larger.

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

All life has in it the dimension of the Unknown; it is a thing forever unfolding. It seems important to consider the possibility that science may have defined life too small. If we define life too small, we will define ourselves too small as well.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

We burn out not because we don’t care but because we don’t grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don’t already have in mind.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone’s trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.