Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
“The old pond:
A frog jumps in,
The sound of the water.”
Matsuo Basho
“I don’t regret anything I’ve done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.”
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Amazon, Bookshop)
“I understand how scarlet can differ from crimson because I know that the smell of an orange is not the smell of a grape-fruit.”
Helen Keller, The World I Live In (Amazon, Bookshop)
“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening and sometimes they arise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.”
James Salter, Burning the Days (Amazon, Bookshop)
“It seemed that one had little control over one’s own destiny. All one could do was to get on with the one job that nobody else could do, the job of being oneself.”
Monica Dickens, Mariana
