A portable companion
Quotes to live by.
These are the lines I return to when the world feels too loud or too small. Some are ancient, some are modern, all are reminders of what matters. Keep the ones that stay with you. Leave the rest for someone else.
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“You only are free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“We are all wanderers of the same earth. The door is open, and the road is before us.”
“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as though it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
“Love, it is not a choice. It is not a decision. It is a feeling that arrives unbidden, and you must decide what to do with it.”
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.”
“Peace of heart is the gift you can give yourself when you stop looking for it from the world.”
“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
“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.'”
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