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Erin Loechner Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“Authenticity is not the watering down of your message to help someone accept your words. Authenticity, I think, is simply trying to find the kindest way to tell the whole truth.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Authenticity, Speaking Your Truth, Being Real
“There is only today, with holes in our pockets, with time spilling out.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Time, Can't Hold Onto Things
“Maybe a successful marriage means just never falling out of love at the same time.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Marriage, Dating
“What we do is not who we are, and although we know this, we still, continually, over red-pepper bisque at a dinner party, ask each other what we do for a living.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Self & Identity, Who We Are, You're Not Your Job
“We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Individuality, Crowd Mentality, Against Peer Pressure
“We fail to see that when we’re caring for our families, we’re also caring for ourselves.”
— Erin Loechner, This One Sentence Changed My Mind- And My Marriage
Tagged: Marriage, Family, Taking Care of Yourself
“Do you know what happens when we victimize ourselves? We lose everything that matters. We lose the freedom to change, the grace to rise above, the strength to get up off the couch.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Victimhood, Rise Up!
“Here is the secret to subtraction. It doesn’t matter what you remove. What matters is that you stop adding it back.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Minimalism & Simplicity, Minimalism
“A good site design is like settling in to write at a clean, beautiful-to-you desk. It is surprisingly important, for you and for those who might be visiting such desk.”
— Erin Loechner, Here They Are, My 14 Best Blogging Tips for Anyone Online
Tagged: Web Design, Importance of A Good Blog Design
“Sometimes, when we’re not looking for what we want, we find what we need.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: It Just Happens, Randomness Of Meaning, Inspirational
“Time, I can see, is of no matter in this land. But the sky, the sky is one I know. It is blue, and it is marbled gray.”
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Tagged: Ethiopia, Descriptions of the Sky, Blue, Time
“Emotions are notoriously vapid. Once we catch them, they float away.”
— Erin Loechner, On Passion
Tagged: Feelings, emotions
“We are taught to think big. Go big or go home. Be large and in charge!

But I’ve never really believed in the good of that.

Give me the water. Let me hibernate, burrowed deep, thin skin and all. Let everything slow: the heartbeat, the breath.

Let us be small.”
— Erin Loechner, Drowning in Motherhood: The Hidden Beauty of Being Underwater
Tagged: Wisdom
“Slow living doesn’t mean being mistake-free, nor does it offer a lifetime of control that’s void of forgetting what’s important. But it does mean carving out the time and space it takes to offer grace when the mistake inevitably arrives, and to offer wisdom to learn from the next one.”
— Erin Loechner, Here's What it Means to Live Slowly When Life Feels Crazy Fast
Tagged: Slow Living, Becoming More Conscious
“The truth is, we can’t pause time. We can’t start it or stop it, can’t speed it or slow it. It’s the grand clock of our days, and it ticks madly with no help or hurry from us. We have very little say in the whole thing.

But we can pause our bodies, and our souls, and we can pay attention long enough to notice when we’ve outpaced life’s daily gifts. We can re-calibrate, setting our speed for a new race — one of endurance and not sprint. Something that feels solid and sure. Steadfast.”
— Erin Loechner, The Importance of Pause: On Running Well and Resting Well
Tagged: Time, Slowing Down
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