Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
Karen Maezen Miller
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.”
“Every life is a love story, but few of us know what love is until the story is nearly over.”
“Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice.”
“Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?”
“When we liberate ourselves from the idea of parenting success, we liberate our children from failure, all without accomplishing a single thing.”
“Love is what we are, when we drop all the things that stand in the way.”
“...Quite the narration in your head, even for a moment, and see for yourself that life is life, and not one minute of it is a retelling or a foretelling. Some things happen; some things don't. That's what makes it all worth seeing, no matter where it goes or how it ends. There is no spinmeister steering it all to a forgone conclusion.”
“True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude — the vehicle for absolute grace.”
“All practice is the practice of making a turn in a different direction. Toward one thing and away from another; the particulars in any given situation don't matter, because you always know the right way. A different way. With practice, you get better at turning. This is my practice. It's not anything special you need to learn. It is not some new information you neet to get. It is nothing you haven't heard before. It is just a turn you might not yet have made, or made again, and again, and again. A turn toward intimate engagement with the life you already have. Fulfillment derives not from lofty achievements, but from ordinary feats. It arrives not once in a lifetime, but every moment of the livelong day.”
“Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads...it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.”
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Book Keywords:
happiness, love, attention, life, inspirational
