“...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.”
“We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences.”
“Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.”
“Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice.”
“We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.”
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”