Top 12 Quotes by Susan Wittig Albert

Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize

Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

Grief, Healing, Writing

I am often surprised when I think to count my graces, for the more I count, the more there seem to be. And if pride in my accomplishments is the emotion that I naturally feel when I focus on my gifts, gratitude is the emotion I feel as I become aware of the many graces that have shaped me and my gifts.

Susan Wittig Albert

Gratitude, Pride, Thinking

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

Susan Wittig Albert

Healing, Simple, Stories

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

Susan Wittig Albert

Music

Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

Susan Wittig Albert

Gratitude, Feelings, Joyful

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

Susan Wittig Albert

Writing, Stories

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Even more remarkably, this healing is not just our own healing, it is the healing of all women. That's why, as we tell our stories to ourselves, it is also important to share them with others. This sharing brings a sense of kinship, of sisterhood. We understand that we are not alone in our efforts to become conscious, whole, healthy persons.

Susan Wittig Albert

Healing, Writing, Simple

One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

Susan Wittig Albert

Weed, Flower, Wildflowers

Susan Wittig Albert (2003). “AN Unthymely Death”, p.70, Penguin

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

Susan Wittig Albert

Real, Lying, Mean

Susan Wittig Albert (2009). “Wormwood”, p.35, Penguin

Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart.

Susan Wittig Albert

Heart, Unique, Self

Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

Pain, Mean, Dark