Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
The best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.
MINDY KALING
Why Not Me?
In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all but very interesting.
JOHN CAGE
Silence: Lectures and Writings
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
ANNIE DILLARD
The Writing Life
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M.F.K. FISHER
How to Cook a Wolf
One thing I have learned about attention is that certain forms of it are contagious. When you spend enough time with someone who pays close attention to something (if you were hanging out with me, it would be birds), you inevitably start to pay attention to some of the same things.
JENNY ODELL
How to do Nothing
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Stranger
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.
THOMAS MERTON
The Journals of Thomas Merton
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
IRIS MURDOCH
The Sea, the Sea
There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate—not a grain more.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Autumnal Tints
We are happy when we are growing.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
