Natalie Rowley

“We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends on the attitudes, the perspectives, and the reactions we bring to situations and to our relationships with other people. When it comes to personal happiness there is a lot that we as individuals can do.” •”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.”
― Robyn Davidson, Tracks

“There were no more abysses, no more walls. There was no more exile. He had seen the foundations of the universe, and they were solid.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Magic isn’t evil or good. Or black or white. It is like the universe, like every missing God. Powerful and supremely indifferent.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida