Olivia Snell

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country