Rupali

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Just remember this, Emma -- not every Jell-O salad turns out perfect. But it can still taste real good.”
― Elizabeth Atkinson, I, Emma Freke

“It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone”
― Israelmore Ayivor