“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life could begin. At last it had dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. I was always rolling these stones from my grave.”
—Bette Howland,
Even when the future’s not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that’s good.
I’m a coffee is half-full kind of girl.
“At any rate, I remain cheerful — if only through some inner necessity. Cheerfulness will prevail. I believe it in my bones… While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he was sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”
—H. G. Wells, Apropos of Dolores, 1938
I am not a wing
but a feather —
I can’t fly, however
all of us together
we can, by rising
do almost anything!
I like people who don’t take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.
“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t
—Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1923, translated by
Saw this trash bin today. Call me crazy but not only does it look kinda pretty, it also seems to suggest many metaphors for the past fifteen years.
“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.”
—Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, 1968
At a certain point, some of us just sit down and watch the rest of our lives
You can’t get overwhelmed by the thought of all the weeds if there are flowers in your soul.
A bad attitude is a fog over your whole body.