Andrea

“sometimes," said the horse.
"sometimes what?" asked the boy.
"Sometimes just getting up and carrying on is brave and magnificent.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“When the dark clouds come...

...keep going”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“I want them to think I’m stupid,” she said to me once. “No expectation is nice. It gives you a lot of time to think.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“Satisfy your mind by responding to your senses.
We need to be actively conscious of them and not going about aimlessly in our daily lives. Note the differences between the following:
The passive state of seeing and the active state of looking.
The passive state of hearing and the active state of listening.
The passive state of noticing a smell and the active state of smelling something.
The passive state of tasting something and the active state of savouring it.
The passive state of touching something and the active state of feeling it.”
― Ryūnosuke Koike, The Practice of Not Thinking