I was just over at Peonies and Polaroids, responding to one of her posts when I read a quote in the comment above me from Flora. She included the following quote:
"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. We are all meant to shine."
It absolutely stopped me in my tracks.
I stumbled through the rest of the comment, acknowledged Flora and then immediately looked up the quote to find the origin.
It turns out that it is abridged from Marianne Williamson.
I have transferred the words to the largest, darkest blockiest font I could find and printed them in black onto white card. The words now hang by my desk.
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8 months ago
Emmy, I love your brand-spankin' new blog - beautiful stuff here. (I am super impressed by the purse you made). Thank you so much for de-lurking and leaving such a nice comment. The Hawk will be *so pleased* to know that people are enjoying his recipe. xoxo, P.
ReplyDeleteOh scrolling back through your blog, I saw this and it jogged my memory that I meant to contact you cos you said how you liked the quote!
ReplyDeleteI know it because Nelson Mandela quoted it in a very famous speech about being a child of the universe and only recently found out that he was quoting MW.
It is a very inspiring quote, so glad you were moved by it.