Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.
Parker J. PalmerThe academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives.
Parker J. PalmerI think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker J. PalmerThe highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
Parker J. PalmerIn my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.
Parker J. Palmer