57th Daily Quote
Editor’s note: Originally written on February 27th, 2025. This post continues to evolve as I do. It’s updated to reflect growth, gratitude, and perspective gained since then.
Welcome, curious minds and growing souls.
Change rarely feels like progress when you’re in it. It can look like sadness, anger, exhaustion, or like nothing at all. But today’s quote by Alice Walker reminds us that even in our most confusing, quiet, or painful seasons, something within us is shifting. Expanding. Preparing.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, uncertain, or just in-between, this may not be a setback. It may be the soil your next version of self needs to break through.
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed much feel the weight and inertia of the earth as its shell on its way to becoming a plane. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening…. Those long persons when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phrase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of personality is about to be revealed.” - Alice Walker, Living by the Word
As a signature of my blog, I’d like to end this post with a suggestion to “Pass on kindness.” There’s no time like the present to Inspire Those Who Inspire You. Acts of kindness, no matter how big or small, can have a direct, positive impact on someone else. Go out there today and change someone’s life for the better!
***These are my personal opinions and may not be those of my employer.***
