Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
The world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
TONI MORRISON
Tar Baby
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself; cleaning is the act of confronting nature.
MARIE KONDO
Spark Joy
It is impossible to cover up anyone who is asleep, without feeling deep tenderness.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
The Soul of Kindness
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Whenever people ask me for advice, I tell them two things: Never give up on your dreams, and do your homework.
ANDRE LEON TALLEY
The Chiffon Trenches
A library is a medicine cabinet. What can heal one person may not work at all for somebody else.
SANDRA CISNEROS
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
An Autobiography
There are unheralded tipping points, a certain number of times that we will unlock the front door of an apartment. At some point you were closer to the last time than you were to the first time, and you didn’t even know it. You didn’t know that each time you passed the threshold you were saying good-bye.
COLSON WHITEHEAD
The Colossus of New York
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR
The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table
What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become strengths greater than what we had when we were ‘normal’ or unbroken…when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks.
NNEDI OKORAFOR
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.
MARY OLIVER
Upstream: Selected Essays
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
