Paula

“My best advice is this—by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It’s not winning that’s really winning. It’s never giving up.”
― Robyn Carr, Any Day Now

“Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.’ — Leo Babauta”
― Brooke McAlary, Slow: Live Life Simply

“But life is what novels are about. A novel can contain more truth than a thousand newspaper articles or scientific papers. It can make you imagine, just for a little while, that you’re someone else—and then you understand more about people who are different from you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“Those ripples—maybe they were the true measure of what we’d offered the world. All the little ways we looked after each other, both the people we knew and loved and those we didn’t. The million times we touched somebody else, that we shone a little light into somebody else’s life.”
― Rosalind James, Found