Rick Flynn

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. It is easy to sense and embrace meaning when life is on track. When there is a feeling of fullness—having love, goodness, family, work, maybe God as parts of life—it’s easier to navigate around the sadness that you inevitably stumble across. Life holds beauty, magic and anguish. Sometimes sorrow is unavoidable, even when your kids are little, when the marvels of your children, and your parental amazement, are all the meaning you need to sustain you, or when you have landed the job and salary for which you’ve always longed, or the mate. And then the phone rings, the mail comes, or you turn on the TV.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

“When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair