Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
C.S. LEWIS
The Magician’s Nephew
Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK
The Diary of Anne Frank, March 6, 1944
There is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
LEO TOLSTOY
What Men Live By and Other Tales
Repetitions turn time into a place, turns the days into a house, where the repetitions form the walls, floor, and ceiling.
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
Summer
As soon as I have a deadline, I work much better. Time unbounded is hard to handle.
MAY SARTON
Journal of a Solitude
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
You know that book; you forget the title after you’ve returned it and over the years you try to look it up a few times, but you never find it again.
HELEN OYEYEMI
Boy, Snow, Bird
I love a broad margin to my life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Going down to the beach after a storm is the only time in my adult life when I experience that wonderful, joyous, childhood feeling of expectancy.
BETTY MACDONALD
Onions in the Stew
You hear a traveler speaking of the cool orange groves beside the sea at Genoa in the summer heat: Oh, if you could only share that coolness with her!
STENDHAL
On Love
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
JOAN DIDION
“On Keeping a Notebook”
