Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON
“If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking”
The way we are living,
timorous or bold,
will have been our life.”
SEAMUS HEANEY
Elegy
It is the bell that moves, but you who ring. It is the sun that shines, but you who see.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
COLETTE quotes by ROBERT PHELPS
Belles Saisons: A Colette Scrapbook
For the love of God and my sisters (so charitable toward me) I take care to appear happy and especially to be so.
ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX
Story of a Soul
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA
You accept life as it is, you see it as it is before you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN
Conversations with James Baldwin
We read books to find out who we are.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Language of the Night
Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening and sometimes they arise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Burning the Days
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
An Apology for Idlers
The gods never make any of their gifts without adding to it a drawback.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Summing Up
The place that hurts isn’t always the place that’s injured.
What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while.
Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.
We can build happier lives only on the foundation of our own nature.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
