Drashti Patel

“For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.”
― Brian Tracy, Brian Tracy's Book of Motivational Quotes To Live By

“there is nothing generic about a human life. When I was little, to get to my bus stop, I had to cross a field that had so much snow my parents fitted me with ski pants and knee-high thermal boots that were toasty to forty degrees below zero. I am excellent in the stern of a canoe, but I never got the hang of riding a bike with no hands. I have seen the northern lights because my parents always woke up the whole house when the night sky was painted with color. I love the smell of clover and chamomile because my sister and I used to pick both on the way home from swimming lessons. I spent weeks of my childhood riding around on my bike saving drowning worms after a heavy rain. My hair is my favorite feature even though it’s too heavy for most ponytails, and I still can’t parallel park. There is no life in general. Each day has been a collection of trivial details—little intimacies and jokes and screw-ups and realizations.”
― Kate Bowler

“See?” I say to my dad. “I’m not a normal person.”
“No,” he says softly, reaching out to pull me to him. “You’re a superhero. But I wish you didn’t have to be.”
― Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved