Being an entrepreneur is a mental job... It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

— Dee Williams

Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because "given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?" In the end, Thoreau, Whitman, Hafiz, and a dozen other writers put me up to the task of seeing if I dared to "live a life worth living.

— Dee Williams

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

— Dee Williams

Fear and logic belong together.

— Dee Williams

For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.

— Dee Williams

Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.

— Dee Williams

He had kidded with us that if we didn't let go at the proper moment, he would slap our hands with a stick, and we had all laughed because who would be silly enough to hang on when they should let go?

— Dee Williams

I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-done, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered, a load that made the entire neighborhood smell like a dairy barn for weeks.

— Dee Williams

If more people understood how nice it is to have a sense of home that extends past our locked doors, past our neighbors' padlocks, to the local food co-op and library, the sidewalks busted up by old trees - if we all held home with longer arms - we'd live in a very different place... We wouldn't feel so alone, no matter the size of our houses or our bank accounts, no matter whether we had good health or congestive heart failure. We would begin to see that each moment presents an opportunity to relax, to notice that the wind has shifted, and a storm is coming, or that our friend's toddler has decided to wear dinner instead of eating it. Furthermore, we would see that each minute counts for something timeless and, if we want, we all can find our way inside these big, tiny, moments.

— Dee Williams

I had no idea that "letting go" would be so complicated; that it would sometimes feel liberating and other times more sorrowful and lonely. In the long run, most of it was like standing on the shore, watching your family set sail for America, and they're smiling and waving goodbye, and getting smaller and smaller, but you are still the same size with no one to talk to.

— Dee Williams