How to keep going

When the big things feel out of control,

focus on what you love right under your nose.

The Horse in Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

per Laura V…

Look

Look, and look again.

This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes. It’s more than bones. It’s more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It’s more than the beating of the single heart. It’s praising. It’s giving until the giving feels like receiving.

You have a life — just imagine that!

You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another

Mary Oliver, To Begin With, the Sweet Grass

Sunday Quote: Fresh

It’s morning again…and the world’s drying off with fresh-laundered sunshine.

Life’s face is never the same
though we may look at it for all eternity.

Kolbein Falkeid, Norwegian poet, 1933 –

Pizza

The sky isn’t more beautiful if you have perfect skin. Music doesn’t sound more interesting if you have a six-pack. Dogs aren’t better company if you are famous. Pizza tastes good regardless of your job title.

The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.

Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

Sunday Quote: Content

There is great happiness in not wanting,

in not being something,

in not going somewhere.

Jiddu Krisnamurti

Making space

When we walk on the earth with reverence,

beauty will decide to trust us

The rushed heart and arrogant mind

lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace.

John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible embrace