Curtis St John

“Magic happens when you head out into the unknown with wonder in your right hand and terror in your left.”
― Clara Bensen, No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

“There’s a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need,” Morrie said. “You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don’t need the latest sports car, you don’t need the biggest house. “The truth is, you don’t get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?” What? “Offering others what you have to give.” You”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Everything is, in any event, fated to disappear. Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.”
― Clara Bensen, No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

“His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone and, given that his position in the world situated him to be either of great help or great harm, it would not do to stay low, if he could help it.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo