daily contemplation

"I have cancer. And I know that once you get that diagnosis, no matter how much you already know, something happens, everything becomes much more real. Ironically, it brings greater permission to be fully alive. I find it very exciting."

~ Ondrea Levine

"The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life."

~ Zadie Smith

"Life is too short to be lived badly."

~ Marjane Satrapi