Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Nicholas Nickleby

“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.” Midnight Library

The road up and the road down is one and the same.  Fragments

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Never Give In!