“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“There isn't a someday. There never was. No one has ever been to the future that you keep putting your life on hold for. All we ever have is now.”
― This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide
― This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide
“You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”
― Miss Rumphius
― Miss Rumphius
“When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea.”
― Miss Rumphius
― Miss Rumphius
“OK, we'll tell her you dug the grave." It's the truth - stretch, but still true. Besides, what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits, without those better versions of ourselves that we present as the only ones that exist?”
― Stay with Me
― Stay with Me
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