“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” — Elizabeth Gilbert · Big Magic, 2015
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” — Henry David Thoreau · Journal, April 20, 1840
“A good meal shared, a door held open, a debt remembered and repaid. These are the actual events of a life. Everything else is footnote.”
“The man who laughs at another's misfortune has simply decided his own comfort matters more than someone else's pain. That is the whole of his character.”
“Every city is a thousand private stories happening simultaneously, and you are one of them, no more or less.”