Tricia

“We can't change the past, Soldier. We can only be grateful for the life of a new day, and move on.”
― Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky

“Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.”
― Paula Poundstone, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

“People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not know, most of whom look nothing like ourselves. Happiness, I realized right there in breathing class, requires engagement.”
― Paula Poundstone, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

“Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm. That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond. They”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is