Madison

“One: 'Decide who you want to be.' Two: 'Act from that identity immediately.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

“We do one thing or another; we stay the same, or we change. Congratulations, if you have changed.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“The greatest achievements often involve remaining open to serendipity, seizing unplanned opportunities, or riding unexpected bursts of motivation. To be delighted by another person, or moved by a landscape or a work of art, requires not being in full control.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

“The trick of life, as I see it now, is to make what’s around you beautiful. It’ll grow from there. Took me a long time to see that.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay