Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
“I’d once been like that, so lonely that I craved further loneliness. Even after I’d made a few friends in college, I would still go out of my way to create whatever conditions I needed that might allow me to be alone.”
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
“So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
Jorge Luis Borges, “You Learn”
“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Nothing is so simultaneously familiar and alien as that which has been present all along.”
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing
“If people focus on just one area of their health, any change tends to be short-lived.”
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
“If you loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on time and human pain and effort. Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father’s face, for behind your father’s face as it is today are all those other faces that were his.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
