“Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.” – Mandy Hale
Friends
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” – William Butler Yeats
Slow little moments
Enjoy the slow little moments every day.
Hope
Writer and essayist Lu Xun on the power of collective hope:
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
Source: The Epigrams of Lusin (found in The Wisdom of China and India)
You could leave life right now
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” – Marcus Aurelius
Peace
“Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere, completely unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be.” – Duncan Trussell
A Treasure Map
“Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect this idea. Which is why the plot of every book ever can be boiled down to ‘someone is looking for something.’” —Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
The Practice of Groundedness
“Groundedness does not eliminate passion, productivity, or all forms of striving and ambition. Instead, it is about ditching an omnipresent and frantic anxiety to begin living in alignment with your innermost values, pursuing your interests, and expressing your authentic self in the here and now. When you are grounded there is no need to look up or down. You are where you are, and you hold true strength and power from that position. Your success, and the way in which you pursue it, becomes more enduring and robust. You gain the confidence to opt out of the consumer-driven rat-race that leaves you feeling like you are never enough.”
— Brad Stulberg in The Practice of Groundedness
Normal
“Normal is the cruelest insult of them all.“