Phyllis Theroux quotes:

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart- Phyllis Theroux

There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which to collect the light.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.