Henion Quotes & Sayings

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett

My voice has expanded. It's unfurled in directions I didn't know it could go. And, in some ways, it isn't even what I thought it was. — Leigh Ann Henion

I have come to believe that I am a lesser authority in my own life. I have learned to distrust less-than-rational, nontechnical experiences, my own phenomenal knowledge. Because, to trust the senses - the mortal body - is to risk sounding crazy, especially, it seems. if you're a woman.
She's seeing things.
She's hearing things.
She's so sensitive.
Read: She's irrational.
And this I have internalized. Who am I to trust my body, my senses, my instincts? Who am I to know how to raise my child without consulting parenting books and up-to-date rearing studies? Who am I to try to find God outside of an institutionally approved, fully vetted doctrine? Who am I to think I can pursue impractical dreams? Who am I to be taken seriously? Who am I to think I'm capable or worthy? Who am I to...who am I? — Leigh Ann Henion

Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing. — Leigh Ann Henion

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. — Thomas Huxley

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson

i think about how - if I want to welcome the inevitable transformations of my life - I'm going to have to fully open myself to spirit-speak, to a seemingly cheesy-Earth-Momma vulnerability. I'm going to have to cede control - not just mentally or physically but also spiritually. — Leigh Ann Henion

To call someone a navel gazer on the mainland is to say that they're narcissistic, self-absorbed in their introspective pursuits. This perspective, I realize, might be the very reason I've come to think of a spiritual life as some sort of luxury. I'm suddenly struck by the irony of a culture that seems to point to personal spiritual quests as somehow selfish when, in the end, those journeys, like the discredited belly button, are ultimately a search for connectivity. — Leigh Ann Henion

To receive this incredible gift all you have to do is follow four simple steps: 1) desire it; 2) know it; 3) grow in its virtue; 4) live it. — Joseph Iannuzzi

Wonder isn't about finding answers; it's about becoming more comfortable with questions. — Leigh Ann Henion

His story is simple, because simple is always best. — Stephen King

The best way out is always through. — Tammara Webber

We didn't admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started. — Rexford Tugwell

All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair. — Leigh Ann Henion

What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected? — Leigh Ann Henion

He was fine dying here, long as this motherfucker died first." -- The Devil in Snakeskins — Andy Henion

Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what's there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow. — Taylor Swift

No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence. — Tessa Dare

Happiness without Guilt. — Mary M. Forbes

Danny begins to walk fast and it strikes me that I don't know where we're ultimately headed. This bothers me. I'm calibrated for destination. It's partly why I've been imagining divinity as some sort of beam-me-up-Scotty experience. But maybe transcendence isn't about leaving. It's about being present. Life is a performance piece. Like dance and song, the art is in the process. Like hula and oli, the process is the prayer. — Leigh Ann Henion

I saw something nasty in the woodshed. — Stella Gibbons