Small and Simple

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief 
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."  
— Helen Keller 

Thanksgiving

"We can spend our entire lives in scarcity . . . just waiting for for the other shoe to drop and wondering when it will all fall apart. Or, we can lean into the uncertainty and be thankful for what we have in that precious moment. When I'm standing at the crossroads of fear and gratitude, I've learned that I must choose vulnerability and practice gratitude if want to know joy. I'm not sure that it will ever be easy for me, but I have learned to trust this practice. For that, I give thanks!" -Brene Brown 

Rare

“Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.”

- Dalai Lama

Joy

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.””

- Rumi

Yes

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

- Marlene Dietrich

Roots

"Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots."

John Green (Paper Towns)

Knowing

"I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t."

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan