Stella

“I often wish I could go back in time and tell my young, anxious self that my dreams weren't in vain and my sorrows weren't permanent. I can't do that, but I can do something better. I can tell you that teachers are all around to help you; with four legs or two or eight or even none; some with internal skeletons, some without. All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths.”
― Sy Montgomery, How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“I am still learning how to be a good creature. Though I try earnestly, I often fail. But I am having a great life trying...”
― Sy Montgomery, How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals