Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
“Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.”
Thomas Merton, A Search for Solitude: Journals vol. 3
“Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.”
Margaret Mead, Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
“Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
Willa Cather, My Antonia
