Shivani

“Heart-Mind, left to its natural state, is vast as a panorama of Nature.”
― Frank LaRue Owen, The School of Soft Attention

“One has no right to make up one's mind about the future in advance.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“It was soothing to sit with life-long friends, the cacophony of bar sounds around us while we caught up on our lives and talked about the glory days of high school. My life since then had been on an accelerated trajectory, not always aimed in the best direction. I acquired a sense of well-being from those friends who married their high school sweethearts, set up housekeeping a stone's throw from where they grew up, and kept the heartbeat of small-town living beating rhythmically.”
― Debi Tolbert Duggar, Riding Soul-O