Tumbling Thoughts

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Anand continued: “A lot of women […] they are very guarded. They are afraid. They make their own money. They think they don’t need anyone to be sweet to them, or bring them flowers or listen to them.” My mother considered this. “Maybe they’re afraid because they’ve been hurt,” she said quietly. “You love,” said Anand, “and sometimes you lose. That is part of what it means to be alive.”
— Amity Gaige (“The Pick-You-Up Artist,” Good Housekeeping, May 2013)
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“To admit that you were wrong is to declare that you are wiser now than you were before.”
— unknown
“Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
”You owe Me.”
Look what happens
with a love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
— Hafiz
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
— Adrienne Rich
“Darkness has one enemy it can never defeat — light.”
— Matthew Kelly
“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free
to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”
— Rose Kennedy
“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are, there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
— Margaret Thatcher