Self-Resolution Quotes

You might have a worry that's so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I'm not fighting with myself.

Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.