Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
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
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
What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Language of Night
Nothing is so simultaneously familiar and alien as that which has been present all along.
JENNY ODELL
How To Do Nothing
In the motion of the very leaves of spring, in the blue air, there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
“On Love”
One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through some discipline or routine (even the routine of making beds) who one is and wants to be.
MARY SARTON
The House By the Sea
Remember every room has its gloom and the great thing to do is to find the color that will cut that gloom.
GERTRUDE STEIN
Everybody’s Autobiography
A red flower placed in a window may expand its influence over all the area of your sight.
ROBERT HENRI
The Art Spirit
There’s a big difference between fresh air and an air freshener.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Life in Five Senses
