Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
We discover through working what we cannot discover any other way.
You accept life as it is, you see it as it is before you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN
Conversations with James Baldwin
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGAN
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
One benefit of going away…was that it made it easier to change.
RACHEL CUSK
Transit
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.
MARGE PIERCY
“Colors Passing Through Us”
Kindness eases change / Love quiets fear
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Parable of the Talents
There isn’t a human being in the world worthy of any dog’s welcome.
RICHARD POWERS
The Echo Maker
As you probably know for yourself, dear reader, it’s the stories of our childhood that make the deepest impressions and last the longest.
STEPHEN KING
Fairy Tale
To invite a person to your house is to take charge of his happiness as long as he be beneath your roof.
JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN
The Physiology of Taste
There’s an intimacy to going shopping with someone else, letting yourself get dragged into stores you would otherwise avoid.
HUA HSU
Stay True
Rich colours actually look more luminous on a grey day, because they are seen against a somber background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own. Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.
G.K. CHESTERTON
In Defense of Sanity
