Kermit the Frog

“I didn't yet know my way through but had to trust that life would hold me.”
― Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

“I didn't want to let them in...but the walls of a person's heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“It's such a simple thing, but we all know the power of gratitude to incite a cycle of reciprocity. If my girls run out the door with lunch in hand without a "Thanks, Mama!" I confess I get to feeling a tad miserly with my time and energy. But when I get a hug of appreciation, I want to stay up late to bake cookies for tomorrow's lunch bag. We know that appreciation begets abundance. Why should it not be so for Mother Earth, who packs us a lunch every single day?”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“I used to be a girl, Little Dog. You know?"

"Okay, Grandma, I know—" But she wasn't listening.

"I used to put a flower in my hair and walk in the sun. After big rain, I walk in the sun. The flower I put on my ear. So wet, so cool." Her eyes drifted from me. "It's a stupid thing." She shook her head. "Stupid thing. To be a girl." After a while, she turned back to me as if remembering I was there. "You eat yet?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous