Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
You would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road.
HERACLITUS
If you want to enjoy the rewards of being loved, you also have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.
TIM KREIDER
“Oof” in I Wrote tHis Book Because I Love You
What a joy it is in life when you happen to have a clean, warm kitchen.
OLGA TOKARCZUK
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead
In a time of destruction, create something.
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
The Fifth Book of Peace
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM
The Solitary Summer
A single sound by itself is neither musical nor not musical. It is simply a sound. And no matter what kind of a sound it is, it can become musical by taking its place in a piece of music.
JOHN CAGE
“A Composer’s Confessions”
We garden for tomorrow, and thereafter. We garden in expectation, and that is why it is so invigorating.
PENELOPE LIVELY
Life in the Garden
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind … he, who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing, but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Rambler No. 6
The bird, the bee, and the bat all fly, but they use different kinds of wings.
Nothing is more exhausting than the task that’s never started.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
