103 Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

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.

Belief traps or frees us.