"[B]aseball, like life, required the same letting go of expectations to really allow enjoyment."
–– Gay Hendricks (b. 1945), American psychologist and writer
Source: Gay Hendricks, Lindsay Tinker. The Fourth Rule of Ten. New York: Hay House, 2015; p. 309.
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 74.
"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites."
–– Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 63.
"To foster psychological richness in our lives, we must lean into the unfamiliar, the risky, and the challenging. ... Being a generalist requires broader perspectives than being a specialist."
–– Shigehiro Oishi, Japanese psychologist, professor and author
Source. Shigehiro Oishi. Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life. New York: Doubleday, 2025; p. 91.
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 50.
"Hardwood grows slowly."
–– Jewel (Kilcher) (b. 1974), American singer, songwriter, poet, actress, activist, author
Source: Cal Newport. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2024; p. 170.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 79.
"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's "own," or "real" life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life –– the life God is sending one day by day."
–– C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer, scholar, and lay theologian
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 45-6.
"The best way to change the world is to change your mind, which often requires feeding yourself. It makes for biochemical peace. It's almost like a prayer: to be needy, to eat, to taste, to be filled, building up instead of tearing down. You find energy to do something you hadn't expected to do, maybe even one of the holiest things: to go outside and stand under the stars, or to go for a walk in the morning, or in such hard times, both."
–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer
Source: Anne Lamott. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Group), 2007; p. 252-253.
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 93.
"Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment."
–– Matthew Fox (b. 1940), American priest, theologian, and author
Source: Matthew Fox. Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2004 (2002); p. 31.
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 65.
