Anna

“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvellous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small-- like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Not everything that happens in a life can be digested. Some events stay forever whole. Some images never leave the mind.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays